In the 1963 movie The Haunting, it tries to follow nearly the exact plot and atmosphere as the book, The Haunting of Hill House. Many people agree that the novel is one of the best horror novels ever put together. If you look under Top 10 novel lists, you will most certainly will find The Hauting of Hill House on that list and most likely near the top.
In the novel Eleanor is most certainly the main charcter because of all the spooky events that take place to and aropund her. In the novel Shirley Jackson gives little description, but she vividly tells the story rather well. Stephen King wrote that, "there are few if any descriptive passages in the English language that are any finer than this; it is the sort of quiet epiphany every writer hopes for: words that somehow transcend the sum of the parts." He wrote this about the first passage of the novel. The novel tricks the reader, it makes the reader think one thing and then in the next instance it means the opposite.
Shirley Jackson researched other ghost stories before writing her novel, The Haunting of Hill House. She wrote the novel in 1950. She was a mother of four and married to a teacher and critic named Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley was interested in magic and witchcraft, she was considered a very troubled woman. She was addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol.
In 1959 the novel The Haunting of Hill House was published. Which made Shirley very happy.
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