And that’s because it is its own c haracter. The history of the house and everything else has so much thought and care put into it that it feels more fleshed out than the main characters.
The house is described not in just physical terms, but also in the way that it makes people feel. Set in an old house that’s so peculiarly built that it rivals the Winchester Mansion in California, the setting is what makes this novel so memorable. Jackson has a way of eliciting fear and dread in the reader, just by careful word choice and sentence structure. A lot of the horror of this novel is not in what happens, but in how it is written. The novel begins with somewhat of a light tone, talking about the house and the darkness within it, but as the story progresses, this lightness is swallowed by darkness, and the tension rises with every turn of the page. This is a classic for a reason, and there is significant imagery and symbolism in everything that appears on the pages. Jackson’s style of writing is clearly the primary appeal for this novel. It’s hard to separate out the four appeal elements for this book, because they’re all so interwoven and dependent on one another.
But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting” Theodora, the lighthearted assistant Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Publisher: Penguin Classics, among othersįirst published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.
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