The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is an unnerving story about four strangers who arrive at a house ready to seek the terrors inside.
As they delve deeper into the mysterious circumstances that surround the house, they begin to question one another and slowly grow apart while the house itself grows stronger, ready to claim its next victim.
This has to be one of the best psychological thrillers I have ever read.
The narrative Jackson weaves is so encompassing that it manipulates the reader into rooting for one outcome and in the next sentence wondering how they could have ever been so foolish.
This book haunts the reader just like its characters, slowly seeping into their mind like a rot and, before you know it, you belong to the house just as much as everyone else.
Select quotation: “Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
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