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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson
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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson
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The scariest book I’ve ever read ... I read it one night next to my sleeping wife and found myself unable to move, unable to go to bed, unable to do anything except keep reading and praying the shadows around me didn’t move—Carmen Maria Machado, The New York Times

the haunted house novel. All others stand in its shadow—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts

Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” beats them all: a maleficent house, real human protagonists, everything half-seen or happening in the dark. It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still, as does Eleanor, the girl who comes to stay—Neil Gaiman, The New York Times

The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror’s rules—Alison Flood, Guardian

Overall rating: 3.7142856 / 5 from 7 reviews.

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Disappointing

"Nothing like the tv show Very slow burner the horror part didn’t start till 110 page yet and am already bored they just keep talking none sense mind u the book is 233 page"

— Estu (1/5)

A classic, but feeling dated

"An influential ghost story that is interesting to read for examining cultural impact, but the story is not scary. You have to get more than half way through the book before anything happens. The four main characters all have different ties to the house which could have provided 4 unique experiences of haunting but only one character’s connections is the explored and the other characters might as well be undeveloped random people. Disappointing read by today’s horror standards."

— Visserdrix (2/5)

Great book (will have to read again though)

"Well written and enticing. Some parts were lost on me, will have to re-read."

— Kiwi (5/5)

I first read the

"I first read the book and then watched the series, and this is one of the best-haunted house books I have ever read! It deserves more internet recognition."

— Ananyaslay (5/5)

Classic, creepy, spine chilling read

"Wonderfully creepy. . . great to read on a a stormy night. I enjoy how the film adaptation kept some of the dialogue so true to its original form. The way that the author describes the eerie feel of Hill House makes you feel like you're right there with the characters, experiencing everything just as they would have."

— D S. (5/5)

Story Building at its Finest

"The dialogue alone is reason enough to read this gem"

— Carolyn (5/5)

Hard to follow

"Something about the writing style made the book hard to follow for me. I read Shirley Jackson’s other title ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ and had no issues grasping the events and quoting the characters after reading the story. With this book, I often had to re-read stuff and the story just felt really hazy."

— Alex C. (3/5)

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  • Published date: Aug 19, 2025
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 224
  • Publisher: Penguin Uk
  • ISBN: 9780241689646
  • Dimensions: 5.34" W x 0.82" L x 8.06" H
Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, 'The Lottery', was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.

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