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A Haunting on the Hill

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A Haunting on the Hill

Auteur(s): Elizabeth Hand
Narrateur(s): Carol Monda
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From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill Housea "scary and beautifully written" (Neil Gaiman) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time.

Open the door . . . .

Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It’s enormous, old, and ever-so eerie—the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play.

Despite her own hesitations, Holly’s girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join Holly in renting the house for a month, and soon a troupe of actors, each with ghosts of their own, arrive. Yet as they settle in, the house’s peculiarities are made known: strange creatures stalk the grounds, disturbing sounds echo throughout the halls, and time itself seems to shift. All too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. It seems something has been waiting in Hill House all these years, and it no longer intends to walk alone . . .

"A fitting—and frightening—homage." New York Times Book Review

"It’s thrilling to find this is a true hybrid of these two ingenious women’s work—a novel with all the chills of Jackson that also highlights the contemporary flavor and evocative writing of Hand." Washington Post

"Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson's rage, wit, and vision." —Paul Tremblay

"Eerily beautiful, strangely seductive, and genuinely upsetting." —Alix E. Harrow

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“Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as Jackson’s original, A Haunting on the Hill is quite extraordinary. It's not pastiche, not ventriloquism. It puts me strongly in mind of a singer you love covering a song by another artist. It's that song but now it's being done by someone else. Remarkable.”

Neil Gaiman
"The lines of paranoia, art, and reality are terrifyingly blurred for our group of hungry and damaged actors cloistered within the moldering walls of Hill House. Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson's rage, wit, and vision with a twenty-first century twist. The old place is as creepy, disorienting, and menacing as ever."—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World
“Hill House is back and haunting as ever in this vividly imagined return to Shirley Jackson’s iconic setting. Elizabeth Hand weaves eerie beauty into the genuine terror lurking in her pages, crafting some of the most striking scares I’ve read in years. This book gave me the best kind of nightmares."—Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines
"Eerily beautiful, strangely seductive, and genuinely upsetting: welcome back to Hill House. I recommend reading only in strong daylight, and never alone."
Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January
A Haunting on the Hill is absolutely captivating—a book that you'll want to climb inside and love forever, until the moment you realize it's too late to escape.”—Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home
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I quite enjoyed this. if you've read the OG you'll see a lot similarities and little glimpses to it, very well done. I'm not overly big fan of the OG version so I enjoyed this twist. if want something big and out there this is not that but if you want that line blurred while making you second guess what you saw and heard? with and edge of malice of course.

Hat tip to the OG

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i’m disappointed. and not only because this book was supposed to return to the eerie world of the haunting of hill house without delivering any of the energy of it.

this book felt rushed and soulless in so many ways. the chapters were short, the characters either had too much backstory and no personality or vice versa, and the hauntings felt like a parody of the haunted house genre. there were so many storylines that were left underdeveloped, and the author seemed to ignore the canon of the haunting from jackson’s work just to create their own. if you want to write your own book, just do it! if it was inspired by another, that is completely fine, but if you’re not willing to follow the history of the universe that you’re writing in, then just make your own. please, for the love of god.

i hate judging books by comparison because it feels unfair, but this book is, quite literally, asking for it by being set in a pre-existing world created by another author. whether it’s because of that comparison or because of how sloppy the writing was (or both!), i’m going to end this review here.

maybe this book would be fun for someone just looking for a shallow haunted house read, but it lacked everything that made the haunting of hill house so good to me; eeriness, history, subtlety, and realistic characters. and, of course, actual horror.

disappointing.

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