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The Haunting of Hill
House
Shirley Jackson
$13.00
0140071083
Penguin Books
Fiction
"Four
seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an
occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called
haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a
lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the
adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined
to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing
doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of
them to make its own . . ."
In a
new foreward for this edition, the distinguished historian and Kennedy
adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance
and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to
light, especially from the Soviet Union." |