TITLE: The Haunting of Hill House
AUTHOR: Jackson, Shirley
GENRE: Classic/Gothic
October regular Book Club choice for Halloween-time. I've always wanted to read it after watching The Haunting.
GENRE: Classic/Gothic
DATES READ: 10/9/2017 - 10/20/2017
MY RATING: 4/5
October regular Book Club choice for Halloween-time. I've always wanted to read it after watching The Haunting.
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Four seekers travel to Hill House looking for evidence of a "haunting". Dr. Montague, Theodora, Eleanor and Luke. What starts as odd happenings feeling becomes deeper and darker. Perhaps Hill House wants one of them for its own...
This book is so creepy! And in such an old school way. No wonder Shirley Jackson is so renowned for her writing. She's inspired so many tales of hauntings.
Her language is fabulous and it's very different from the movie I watched. It was a pleasant surprise.
Such a different take on a haunting too. It was much more a mental attack and was an original unreliable-ish narrator. Was the house really haunted? That remains for the reader to decide. In a way, that makes the ghost story so much creepier.
The film took so many liberties and lost the original integrity of this classic. But I guess, any excuse to get Catherine Zeta Jones, Owen Wilson and Liam Neeson on screen together is a good one!
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