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(0)Shirley Jackson
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
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...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson’s legacy.”—Joyce Carol...
A detailed account of one of the strangest and most shocking episodes in American history, written by the author of "The Lottery"
Stories of magic, superstition, and witchcraft were strictly forbidden in the little town of Salem Village. But a group of young girls ignored those rules, spellbound by the tales told by a woman named Tituba. When questioned about their activities, the terrified girls set off a whirlwind of controversy as they
...„Hill House se înălța singuratică pe fundalul dealurilor, iar înăuntrul ei sălășluia întunericul..."
Patru persoane au sosit la Hill House: doctorul Montague, un savant care caută dovezi solide legate de manifestările supranaturale; Theodora, asistenta sa drăguță și sensibilă; Luke, un aventurier și viitorul moștenitor al Hill House; și Eleanor, o tânără singuratică, fragilă, cu un trecut întunecat.
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