The Haunting of Hill House

The book captures the essence of loneliness in women and the longing for a sense of belonging. Loved Eleanor. Loved the book.

What I liked: Amazing packaging, bubble wrap was used. Premium quality of the book From very long time I wanted to read this book and finally got my hands on this. I can't wait to read this horror book.

One of the best and well respected works of horror, written by Shirley Jackson - of the perhaps most basic trope-Haunted Houses. Very easy to get into and completely gripping, I have just started reading the book, but have high hopes that I will enjoy it. The penguin horror hardcover edition is absolutely fantastic and thanks to the seller Transinfo for doing a fabulous job of packing it very well. It has good page quality and a great cover and beautiful spine - great for collecting/gifting.

Book is too small

I have read plenty of horror novels but Haunting of Hill House was the best up till date. It was so different from others. An experiment gone wrong, a scientist playing with the minds of others to the extent of losing their sanity. This book haunted me long after I had finished it. Five stars for me.

This was a good book to read. I loved the character Eleanor. Shirley Jackson has become my favorite horror writer now. Her narration is similar to K.Hari Kumar's horror books. There are times when Eleanor's thoughts confused me but that was how it was supposed to be. Reommended.

Nice one, great quality

Very good book

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La parte de terror tarda un poco en ponerse en marcha pero la espera vale la pena! Buenos personajes y grandes escenas de miedo.

“No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.” I’m obsessed, you don’t understand, that line IS SEARED into my brain, how am I supposed to be normal about this?? you write an opening sentence like that, and I would follow you to the ends of the earth!!! The second I’d read that sentence I felt it in my bones that this novel would bag one of my rare 5-star ratings. It reads like poetry, it reads like magic, it reads like beauty on the outside, with danger lurking on the inside. Long have I known about Shirley Jackson and the cult-like status she (rightly!) enjoys not only among horror fans, but in the English literary world in general. As such, the fact that this edition is blurbed by Stephen King – king of horror for obvious reasons – is a bit misleading, and unfair. Misleading because I expected the same kind of horror I’d expect from It or Pet Cemetary; unfair because Shirley Jackson did everything King does now, only decades earlier. If still alive, SHE should be blurbing his books. And no, Shirley Jackson does not write horror like King, and if you hear “horror” and all you can think of is “clown” and “undead animals” and if you then go into a horror novel expecting exactly those things from it only to end up being disappointed and letting that disappointment influence your rating, then I’m sorry because it means the term has become so uniquely specific, it excludes almost everything else that makes horror horror. It also means you should read something that is NOT what you think horror is. No, Shirley doesn’t do King’s horror; instead, she writes about a supposedly haunted house, a doctor curious enough to move there and investigate it, and two women and a man who are just bored, adventurous, and lonely enough to move in there with him. Taking course over just a week or two, the experiment of trying to find and explain the reason for the haunting of Hill House, the house and its characters are slowly coming undone, pulling readers into unknown depths of disbelief, deceit, and despair. Mainly told from the first-person perspective of Eleanor Vance, who arrives at the house with a car stolen from her sister (it’s half hers!) and her mother freshly six feet under, we are thrust into a setting in which “the haunted house” becomes a character in its own terms, more substantial than any of the novel’s human characters and granted far more attention than any of them except Eleanor. This short story packs such a punch, it’s almost unbelievable, given how little is neither confirmed nor denied and how much is left up to our imagination. And yet… and yet, Jackson knows exactly where to drop that little word, that sentence that is sure to let your thoughts run wild. It’s almost impossible to consume this story sitting still. Shuffling, walking, changing sitting positions, breathless laughter over a clever pun, it’ll all happen, guaranteed. The switch between Eleanor arriving at the house, afraid and small but simultaneously hopeful and excited for her life to start turning into a ferocious, jealousy-ridden, giggling, angry woman happens both so quickly and slowly that when you blink, the entire character has changed within the span of a second, and you blink again, and you think it must have all been a figment of your imagination. Is this genuine horror? Is the house really alive or filled with ghostly entities? Or is this a psychological terror of the mind that has Eleanor’s (in Freudian terms) Id and Superego fighting a battle of wills? The juicy and uncomfortable truth: it is up to the reader to determine what is “really” going on, and if we believe that wherever these characters came from before they arrived at Hill House is indeed the real world. This book is so clever, and the language is so smart and timeless, at times I could not believe Shirley wrote dialogues this sharply modern. I read what the characters were saying and what Eleanor was thinking, and there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that some of those lines are exact replicas of what some of us would say were we in the same situation. It’s cutting, and it’s absurd, and it’s EXACTLY RIGHT. This novel will be re-read and re-read and re-read because it’s great, it’s smarter than me. Because I need to underline sentences and scribble in between the lines next time I read it because reading it is like staring at a rotten brain carefully preserved in formalin, because it’s disgustingly good and haunted and crooked. 🎬 If you enjoyed this you should watch that: The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

I really like Shirley Jackson’s novels, this one is my favorite!

The book arrived in a bad condition