The Haunting of Hill House
Ranked #2 in Ghost Story, Ranked #4 in Ghost — see more rankings.
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... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Ben Shapiro Very enjoyable. It is a good book. (Source)
Ramsey Campbell This book is one of several novels in which a group of ghost hunters or psychic investigators move into a house with a reputation of being haunted, and see what they find. But what makes this the greatest single ghost novel, in my view, is that it’s at least as much about the psychological interaction of the characters as it is about the overtly spectral. There’s a superb characterisation of the spinster character, who ultimately becomes one of the ghosts of Hill House, if you like. The scenes from her viewpoint are both moving and disturbing. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Haunting of Hill House is ranked in the following categories:
- #5 in Autumn
- #33 in Fall
- #6 in Gothic
- #8 in Halloween
- #7 in Horror
- #93 in Modern Classic
- #62 in Orange
- #43 in Penguin Classics
- #13 in Scary
- #100 in Short
- #79 in Supernatural
- #43 in Weird
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