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The Haunting of Hill House

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1959
2019
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9 chapters
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Copyright © 1959 by Shirley Jackson
For Leonard Brown
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
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Within, its walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
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Added: 01-Feb-2019
Last Updated: 07-Mar-2022

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 04-Oct-2010
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Book on CD
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Date Issued:
04-Oct-2010
Format:
Book on CD
Cover Price:
$9.95
Length:
7 hrs 27 min (242 pages)
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Once
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Internal ID:
2399
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
From audible.com:

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….

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.

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote such classic novels as We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Bird's Nest, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, "The Lottery". She has influenced such writers as Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Richard Matheson.
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Shirley Jackson  
Birth: 14 Dec 1916 San Francisco, California, USA
Death: 08 Aug 1965 North Bennington, Vermont, USA.

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