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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson (also rec’d by Carmen Maria Machado & Kirk Hammett )

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Possibly the best haunted house novel ever ­written — ­starting with one of the best opening lines you’ll ever read. Jackson’s beautiful prose delivers a series of subtle yet chilling encounters with the supernatural. A discontented and lonely woman is invited to participate in a parapsychological experiment at a haunted mansion. Or is the haunting inside her head?

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"Possibly the best haunted house novel ever ­written — ­starting with one of the best opening lines you’ll ever read. Jackson’s beautiful prose delivers a series of subtle yet chilling encounters with the supernatural. A discontented and lonely woman is invited to participate in a parapsychological experiment at a haunted mansion. Or is the haunting inside her head?"
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