Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery is essential reading during spooky season, but The Haunting of Hill House has also terrified readers for almost 70 years. Our Classic Book Discussion Group will explore the “notoriously unfriendly pile” that is Hill House during their next discussion in October.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
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 lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
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Copies of The Haunting of Hill House can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor, and it’s also available digitally as an ebook (through Libby/Overdrive) and an audiobook (through Libby/Overdrive).
An in-person discussion of The Haunting of Hill House will be held at the library on Thursday, October 23, at 3:00 PM. No registration is required to attend.
Published on October 8, 2025.
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