Greg S’s Reviews > The Haunting of Hill House > Status Update

I like that we never see anything: like Jaws, it’s the best part of terror.

Characters strangely talk past each other a lot in this book. What happened to that one chapter that Eleanor and Luke might be becoming involved?

One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door…

Well, Mrs. Montague is one way to highten the tension. Just go on and pour gas on that fire.

Cool, but…what does that actually mean? — “…the shuddering whiteness of the trees…”

Just to remember…it’s been, what? Two days?

Lol. A Goya painting. Of course, there’s a Goya painting.

Might Hugh Crain be an allusion to Ichabod Crane?

I’m not sure when the change happened. Maybe when Eleanor saw her name in chalk. — “…and she wanted, quite honestly, to slap his face.”

I think it’s the “held hands tight; the room was brutally cold and thickly dark”, “so hard that each of them could feel the other’s bones”, “low, steady sound”, “a mumbled word”, “falling sometimes “, and “without warning,” that preceded it. Or else that would be a very funny baby gurgle.