The Haunting of Hill House Mass market paperbound - 2019
by Shirley Jackson
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Readers widely commend the novel’s elegant prose and eerie, ambiguous atmosphere, emphasizing its psychological portrait of Eleanor and the charged dynamics—often read as queer subtext—over overt hauntings. Many call it a foundational haunted?house work with memorable set pieces and flashes of dry humor, but a significant number find the pacing slow, the dialogue dated or messy, the POV disorienting, and the scares too sparse, with an ending that feels abrupt. Reviewers also stress that it differs markedly from the Netflix series, with some preferring the 1963 film or modern adaptations for clearer stakes.
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- Title The Haunting of Hill House
- Author Shirley Jackson
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Publication date 2019-09-24
- ISBN 9780143134770 / 0143134779
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.4 x 4.2 x 0.9 in (18.80 x 10.67 x 2.29 cm)
- Reading level 920
- Category Fiction - Horror
- Library of Congress subjects Horror fiction, Psychological fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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