The Haunting of Hill House

ByShirley Jackson, Guillermo del Toro & Laura Miller

Release Date: 2013-10-01
Genre: Fiction & Literature

Score: 4

From 139 Ratings

Description

A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers.

Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.

Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.

The Haunting of Hill House

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. 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.

Reviews

The Haunting of Hill House
3
By Maxquilt
Really kind of disappointed. Usually the book is better than the Movie. Sad to say, Movie was better. The ending was definitely not befitting.
this sample is not a sample
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By hxbankaofnamal
I’m not going to spend money on this book because I can’t read a sample. What the hell penguin? You have two copies of this book in this store and both of them have a sample that’s entirely introduction. I’m not going to buy a book if the only looking I can do is at other writers description of the book. How is that helpful to anyone?
Beautifully written
5
By Maggie M. Michelle
Unsettling in the best of ways.