The Haunting of Hill House (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Shirley Jackson
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: The 1950s
- Setting: Near Hillsdale, a fictional town in the United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Horror literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, Suicide, Supernatural, Extrasensory perception or powers, Alienation, Ghosts or apparitions, Death or dying, Good and evil, Faith, Loneliness, Horror, Houses, mansions, or manors, Experiments, Doors
- Locales: New England
The Plot
In The Haunting of Hill House, a concealed evil is both psychically and physically aroused by the presence of a small group of people brought to a haunted house by a researcher of the paranormal, Dr. John Montague. Montague recruits three others to aid him in his analysis of what appears to be a genuine haunted house. The first, a lonely young woman named Eleanor Vance, had spent eleven years caring for an invalid mother whom she hated and who recently died. Theodora is an attractive artist with strong psychic gifts. Luke Sanderson, a cad with an instinct for...
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