Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle: An Introduction

[Marie]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle :

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

*from the Penguin Classics edition

Haunting of Hill House:

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.

* from the Penguin Classics edition

Reading Schedule for October :

October 1 : We Have Always Lived in the Castle : Chapters 1 - 5
October 8 : We Have Always Lived in the Castle : Chapters 6 - 10
October 15 : Haunting of Hill House : Chapters 1 - 3
October 22 : Haunting of Hill House : Chapters 4 - 6
October 29 : Haunting of Hill House : Chapters 7 - 9

* I do know I will have to be out of town a couple of days this month, but it shouldn't effect the reading schedule. If I see it's going to, I will try to post them early.