{"product_id":"the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-shirley-jackson","title":"The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShirley Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 1948. She is the author of six novels, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sundial;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e two bestselling family chronicles, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife Among the Savages \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e Raising Demons;\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and hundreds of short stories, many published in five separate posthumous collections. She died in 1965 at the age of forty-eight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52018236358965,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/hillhousepb.jpg?v=1764700834","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-shirley-jackson","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}