the haunting of hill house folio society

Since its original publication in 1959, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson has become the quintessential benchmark in American gothic horror. The opening paragraph from The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Tense, complex and brilliant in its depiction of the alienating power of loneliness and isolation… Filmed intelligently by Robert Wise in 1962” (Barron, Fantasy and Horror 6-181). “A provocative and unsettling story in which Jackson achieves a perfect blurring of the boundary between supernatural intrusion and psychological projection.

'Miss Jackson can summon up stark terror, make your blood chill and your scalp prickle,' approved The New York Times, calling her ‘the finest master currently practicing in the genre of the cryptic, haunted tale” (Oppenheimer, Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson, 226-7). 'A goose pimple horror story, and a good one,' said the New York Herald Tribune. 'I have always loved to use fear,' she said-and she rarely used it better… The book, brought out in fall 1959, met with almost unmitigated praise. Hill House is eerie, subtle, infinitely chilling.

King, in fact, dedicated one of his books, Firestarter, 'to Shirley Jackson, who never had to raise her voice.' “The Haunting of Hill House' has been called by no less an authority than Stephen King one of the greatest horror novels of all time. 'With all best wishes and much gratitude, Shirley Jackson'įirst edition of Shirley Jackson’s most famous and influential novel, “the great modern novel of supernatural horror” (Horror: 100 Best 60). Personally inscribed by Shirley Jackson directly onto the FFEP (First Free End Paper): Octavo, original cloth with original un-clipped dust jacket still showing the $3.95 price.

First Edition, Second Printing as stated on the dust-jacket. Signed by the author with a personal inscription. Shirley Jackson 'The Haunting of Hill House'. How rare her signature is, on this all time very original, classic that continues to inspire writers such as King. the only great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” -Stephen King Personally inscribed by Shirley Jackson directly into the book! “Shirley Jackson’s Hill House is as nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read.

The haunting of hill house folio society