- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Language: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 0141191449
- ISBN-13: 978-0141191447
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (264 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,429,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Chilling and Disturbing,
By Mark From Philly "mark_from_philly" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
A powerful psychological thriller, "The Haunting of Hill House" affects the reader much as the fictional Hill House affects its intrepid explorers. Written with simple, lucid, and elegant prose, it is vaguely menacing and quietly disturbing, it is puzzling and disorienting, it is subtle and complex, and it works its dark magic by manipulating the fear, weakness, and despair we bring with us.And the reviewer from Lubbock is spot on; My deepest sympathy to anyone who attempts chapter five, section four, alone, at night ...
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nice & creepy,
By lady detective "sakura kitty" (east coat) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
It starts out slow, but it builds & builds, & by the time the house gets ahold of dear Eleanor, it's too late to go back! I was chilled upon finishing the novel.Don't expect skeletons popping out of closets, and ghosties running rampant from page one- if you do, it will only lead you into dissappointment. Jackson's writing is literary & quite concerned with character development & it has an old-fashioned horror story appeal. The ending makes this short novel, retrospectively, all the more thrilling. Recommended!
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Most Frightening Story Ever!,
By RavenHive99 (Applegate, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
Shirley Jackson is truly a master of the human mind. Her stories, including this one, are not just about these strange and horrible things that happen to people, but even more about their minds and the ways that they react to the people around them. In one sense you can see the end of this story coming for a while, but it's still a shock when you reach it.I've already read every book Stephen King has written, so I was looking for a good horror novel. After reading some of the reviews here, I spent all day hunting for this book, moving from bookstore to bookstore, and when I eventually found this, I started reading, about mid-afternoon. I was caught up with it and couldn't put it down, not even to eat, until two o'clock the next morning. Now it may have just been because I was reading it in the middle of the night, but for me this book is more frightening than any story I've ever read before. There is a strange emotional tapestry among the ghosthunters in this building, but withing the growing unease, there are absolutely terrifying scenes that creep up on you and shock you. What happens to Eleanor over the course of the book makes you shiver. Now, I haven't read Matherson's 'Hell House', but I would say that this is the most frightening story ever. Journeys end in lovers meeting...
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