The Haunting of Hill House Penguin Classics Horror Book Review

  The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre 

  First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as   a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously   unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a   “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well   acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems   destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.