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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson,

Laura Miller (Introduction)

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Dec 09, 2019 Matt Goncalves rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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A very good spooky story. It's title of Hill House is appropriate because it goes through peaks and valleys of suspense and dread followed by odd banter that seemed to drag the flow of the story. The form of narration was intriguing because it was standard third person but would display the main character's thought so much that it started to read like an internal monologue of the character going mad. Many scenes made me question what was really happening; was it a dream, or illusions, or were ch ...more

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Oct 17, 2019 Jacob rated it liked it

This book suffers from it's own fame. I came into this book expecting a super spooky ghost story and found just an okay Gothic novel. I'm not saying it's poorly written, just the opposite in fact, but it's not scary in the least. I know it's of it's time and it's not meant to be a gallons of blood kills per page kind of horror novel, but the slow drawn out haunting can be a bit of a rag at times. I say read this novel if you want to experience a staple in the horror genre or you enjoy Gothic tal ...more

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