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A Haunting on the Hill

by Elizabeth Hand ยท 2023

ISBN: 140872958X 9781408729588

Category: Fiction / Horror

Page count: 325

'Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as Jackson's original<b>' NEIL GAIMAN</b><b>Discover the landmark first novel ever to return to Hill House, officially authorised by the Shirley Jackson estate.</b>'It's so vivid, full of totemic menace and with a heart-in-your-mouth, can't-look-away frisson' <b>BRIDGET COLLINS</b>'In some ways even more enjoyable than the original. Genuinely sinister and beautifully written' <b>ROSIE ANDREWS</b>'Welcome back to Hill House. Read by daylight, and never alone' <b>ALIX E. HARROW</b>'Hill House is back and as haunting as ever. Some of the most striking scares I've read in years' <b>ANA REYES</b>_______<i><b>Sixty years later, Hill House is occupied again</b></i>Playwright Holly Sherwin is close to her big break. Having received a grant to develop her new play, all she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. Then on a weekend away, she stumbles upon Hill House - an ornate if crumbling gothic mansion, near-hidden outside a small town.Soon Holly's troupe of actors - each with ghosts of their own - arrive at Hill House for a creative retreat. But before long they find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself.<b>For something has been waiting patiently in Hill House all these years.</b><b>Something no longer content to walk alone.</b> _______'Evocative and unsettling, capturing the essence of the original whilst offering something brand new' <b>CARLY REAGON</b>'A novel dripping in atmosphere and intrigue' <b>JOANNE BURN</b>'As unnerving and disorienting as Hill House itself' <b>LAURA SHEPPERSON</b>'A subtle and deeply unnerving ghost story' <b>AMANDA MASON</b>'Creepy, tragic, and haunting. I tore through its pages' <b>VICTOR LaVALLE</b>'Not a simple act of ventriloquism but a true marriage of minds' <b>DAN CHAON</b>