![]() ![]() ![]() Montague, investigator of psychic phenomena, wishes to live in it for a summer with three companions: Luke, a nephew of the owner, and two young women, Eleanor and Theodora. ![]() The house has an evil reputation and has long been shunned. Hill House stands near Hillsdale in a region that smacks of back-country New England. In “The Haunting of Hill House” she has produced caviar for the connoisseurs of the cryptic, the bizarre, the eerie, guiding us along the frontiers between commonplace reality and some strange “absolute reality” of her own. The obliqueness, the tangential dartings of Miss Jackson’s uniquely imaginative mind occasionally conflict with the forward movement of her narrative, but they do not undo her spell. ![]() This review of Shirley Jackson’s new novel properly begins with the confession that I am not sure of anything about it except its most unflagging interest. In 1959, Edmund Fuller reviewed Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House,” which, nearly 60 years later, is still considered the best of its genre. Happy Halloween! This week’s issue is filled with ghosts and horror, both real and fictional. ![]()
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