The Haunting of Hill House
Language: English
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Publisher: The Viking Press
Published: Jan 2, 1959
Description:
SUMMARY: A dramatization of the novel in which an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.
Stephen King, in his book Danse Macabre, a non-fiction review of the horror genre, lists The Haunting of Hill House as one of the finest horror novels of the late 20th century and provides a lengthy review. According to the Wall Street Journal, the book is "now widely regarded as the greatest haunted-house story ever written."[2] In his review column for F&SF, Damon Knight selected the novel as one of the 10 best genre books of 1959, declaring it "in a class by itself."[3]