“[T]he way in which the shack progressively takes over Mark reminds me of stories like
The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson or
Hell House, by Matheson, due to the way in which the evil housed in these mythical buildings takes advantage of the pre-existing weaknesses in its inhabitants, either to destroy them, as in the aforementioned classics, or to, in some way, possess or transform them, as in this novel …”
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