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A review by novelyjaded
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
3.5
Rumors about Hill House have been around for years, none too pleasant rumors at that. Someone has finally decided to see if those rumors are true. An unlikely group gather at Hill House to spend the summer and see if they can discover its secrets.
One of things that makes THHH so creepy is it’s plausibility, if you believe in the supernatural. The events that occur could be explained by the odd construction of the house but some of them are just improbable enough that it’s easy to attribute them to something unnatural, something supernatural.
Very reminiscent of The Shining in some ways. The house felt like it was an entity all to itself that prayed on those it could keep lost in its halls.
But I was left unsatisfied in the end. I felt that there was so much build up only to be left with the sensation that the rug had been pulled out from under me. I wanted to know more and discover all the secrets that the house had to hold.