Shirley Jackson

The greatest haunted house story ever written, soon to be a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who

arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult

scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted

assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with

poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems

destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill

House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its

own.