The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
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The Haunting of Hill House

Author: Shirley Jackson

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2010

Synopsis

Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy HuttonPast the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.This classic horror novel has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.

About Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote such classic novels as We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, “The Lottery.” Her work has been adapted to film, television, and theater and has influenced such writers as Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Richard Matheson.

About Bernadette Dunne

Bernadette Dunne has been honored to narrate the work of some of the finest fiction and nonfiction writers of our time, including Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, and Sandra Day O'Connor. The winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and a three-time Audie Award nominee, she has voiced countless bestsellers, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Devil Wears Prada, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She studied at The Royal National Theater and lives in New York.

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Quotes

“Bernadette Dunne’s performance of Jackson’s novel is so eerily superb that she breathes new life into the 1959 ghost story…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile

“A goose-pimple horror story, and a good one.” New York Herald Tribune

“Makes your blood chill and your scalp prickle…Shirley Jackson is the master of the haunted tale.”  New York Times Book Review

“The Haunting of Hill House is a highly engaging and suspenseful ghost story, that is, like all good ghost stories, an anatomy of its characters. Jackson’s “hauntedness” is in her troubled protagonist, not in the actual house—there is a possiblity that a toxic individual is a contagion to others and to herself.” Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times bestselling author

“The story is great, scary, and wonderful, but the book also elicits such great questions about the powers of suggestion and the myth of the delicate female…I love that it is steeped in gothic terror, and without veering into grotesque horror, it chilled me to the bone. I didn’t think I’d enjoy a classic ghost haunting story quite so much, but this book knocked me out and has sent me on a Shirley Jackson kick.” Tessa Fontaine, author of The Electric Woman

Awards

  • AudioFile Earphones Award
  • Bustle Pick
  • BookRiot Pick
  • National Book Award
  • New York Public Library Staff Pick
  • The Handbook's Picks
  • New York Times Bestseller in Audio
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