The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonFour seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding, they cannot possibly know what

it is Vincent's voice as much as his artwork that resonates in high definition on the page

Wren won't go down without a fight

and intimately devastating

Some live in the city

must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee to go cold

But when the cheeky goats

just as their romance intensifies

a quick wit

fascination and desire threaten to overwhelm the lovers who at first feign indifference to the charge between them

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What to do with all that vertical space

the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is