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Wed Feb 16 2000 at 16:45:26
A short
novel
written by
Shirley Jackson
and published in 1957. It's the
story
of four people who go to a
notorious
haunted house
to attempt to prove the
existence
of
ghost
s. In the process, they (in particular, the very
nervous
Eleanor) are
prey
ed upon by
something
that wants to
terrorize
and
destroy
them. Is it a
ghost
? Or is it just Eleanor's over-active
imagination
?
No one
knows for sure...
Jackson's
book
succeeds because of the skillful
subtlety
that pervades the story. We never
see
any ghosts. We
hear
them -- or something that might be
ghostly
. There are never any
gruesome
shocks -- no
grand guignol
moments. The whole thing is incredibly
creepy
, and that
eerie
creepiness sticks with you for years, usually rearing its head before
bedtime
on
cold, windy nights
...
It's been made into
movie
s twice -- once in the
brilliant
and
understated
"
The Haunting
" in 1963 and again in the
ham-fisted
and
moronic
"The Haunting" in 1999. Rent the first one. Do not watch the second one.
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Wed Feb 16 2000 at 16:54:07
Hill House
is in
North Bennington
,
Vermont
. At the time that I was a
student
at
Bennington
College
, it was an
off-campus
student residence
. At the time she wrote the
novel
,
Shirley Jackson
lived in the area, and her
husband
taught
at Bennington.
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