From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula
Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever authorized
novel to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill
House: a suspenseful, contemporary, and terrifying story of longing and
isolation all its own.
Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after
receiving a grant to develop her play The Witch of Edmonton, she may
finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to
bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a
weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the ornate, if
crumbling, gothic mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's
enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place to develop and
rehearse her play.
Despite her own hesitations, Holly's girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join
Holly in renting the house out for a month, and soon a troupe of actors,
each with ghosts of their own, arrive. Yet as they settle in, the
house's peculiarities are made known: strange creatures stalk the
grounds, disturbing sounds echo throughout the halls, and time itself
seems to shift. All too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at
odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. It seems
something has been waiting in Hill House all these years, and it no
longer intends to walk alone . . .
