The Haunting of Hill House
$38.59
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2013
Summary
Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House—Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ‘haunting’; Theodora, his light-hearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143122357 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143122355 |
| Author: | Shirley Jackson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 434g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 145mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classic Horror |
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Praise for Penguin Horror Classics:“The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro, feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I’ve seen in a cover in quite some time.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing“Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography.” – Dan Solomon, Fast Company
About The Author
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1919. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story ‘The Lottery’, which was published in 1948. Her novels - which include The Sundial, The Bird’s Nest, Hangsaman, The Road through the Wall, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House - are characterised by her use of realistic settings for tales that often involve elements of horror and the occult. Raising Demons and Life Among the Savages are her two works of nonfiction. Come Along With Me is a collection of stories, lectures, and part of the novel she was working on when she died in 1965.
Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and designer, most famous for his Academy Award-winning film, Pan’s Labyrinth, and the Hellboy film franchise. He has received the Nebula, Hugo, and Bram Stoker awards and is an avid collector and student of arcane memorabilia and weird fiction.
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