![]() ![]() Haunting of Hill House is widely regarded as one of the horror genre’s absolute classics, King calls it a perfect example of the haunted house story, though I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect myself, after all not all classics live up to scrutiny and previously I’d just read Shirley Jackson’s short stories, which ranged from awesome, to good, to slightly incomprehensible. Indeed, it’s nice to think a lady who apparently struggled with mental illness and lived a rather haunted life herself finally got the recognition she deserved. ![]() Favourite of writers such as Stephen King, Harlan Ellison and Niel Gaimen, and author of several landmark stories in the history of horror and weird psychological fiction, despite having passed away sixty years ago her legacy just seems to keep on growing. Shirley Jackson is an author with quite a reputation. ![]()
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