The greatest haunted house story ever written and the inspiration for
a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel
Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton.
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.