A review by crystalllite
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

4.0

Shirley Jackson: the original master creep. I find Jackson's writing incredibly refreshing having been born to an era where books, movies, and TV are loaded with violence and gore that serves to shock its intended audience sometimes without finesse. The Haunting of Hill House is written delicately and despite the fact that all of the supernatural action fails to produce the usual pile of human grit it achieves its full on creep in the same way that Shelley manages to horrify readers with Frankenstein. It's all in the language and misdirection.