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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson. New York: Viking Press, 1959.
First edition / First printing, Octavo, Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Considered one of the finest literary ghost stories ever published. Basis for two film adapations titled “The Haunting” - the 1963 Robert Wise film starring Julie Harris and Claire Bloom, and the 1999 film starring Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen WIlson, Bruce Dern and Lili Taylor.
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foreverthere1117: And What Walked There, Walked Alone.
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I wuv Shirley Jackson. If she and Flannery O’Connor and I could just hang out for days, that would be great by me.
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I read the majority of The Haunting of Hill House in the old Rizal Library. It was raining hard at the time because of a...
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One of my favorite books. “Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had...
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