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Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was first published in the The Haunting of Hill House beat them all…It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still.”-Neil Gaiman, author of “The books that have profoundly scared me…are few….But Shirley Jackson’s “The scariest book I’ve ever read.” -Carmen Maria Machado, author of “ the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” -Stephen King Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. 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. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Huttonįirst published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s

The haunting of hill house penguin classics deluxe edition