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Rent The Haunting of Hill House
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Dec 2006
Genre: Fiction - Horror - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 272
Synopsis
Aside from her short story, "The Lottery", "The Haunting of Hill House" is probably Shirley Jackson’s most famous work. Dr. Montague is a scholar of the occult, looking for evidence of haunting. He has recruited three volunteers to spend a summer investigating the paranormal phenomena at Hill House. Only Eleanor, a lonely young women all too well acquainted with poltergeists, strikes a peculiar affinity with Hill House, one that may well prove dangerous...
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Multi-layered literature, the type you can read over more than once and discover new symbolisim each time. Sacrey without being predicitable or resorting to blood and guts. A lot of it's chilling effect is in what's left unsaid or unexplained... just a masterfully crafted story.