A Haunting on the Hill
Books | Fiction / Gothic
3.7
Elizabeth Hand
From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House—an "eerily beautiful, strangely seductive, and genuinely upsetting" (Alix E. Harrow) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time. **Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar**Open the door . . . . Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It’s enormous, old, and ever-so eerie—the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play. Despite her own hesitations, Holly’s girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join Holly in renting the house for a month, and soon a troupe of actors, each with ghosts of their own, arrive. Yet as they settle in, the house’s peculiarities are made known: strange creatures stalk the grounds, disturbing sounds echo throughout the halls, and time itself seems to shift. All too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. It seems something has been waiting in Hill House all these years, and it no longer intends to walk alone . . ."A fitting—and frightening—homage." —New York Times Book Review"It’s thrilling to find this is a true hybrid of these two ingenious women’s work—a novel with all the chills of Jackson that also highlights the contemporary flavor and evocative writing of Hand." —Washington Post "Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson's rage, wit, and vision." —Paul Tremblay
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Author
Elizabeth Hand
Pages
400
Publisher
Little, Brown
Published Date
2023-10-03
ISBN
031652798X 9780316527989
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"this was a easy listen. i enjoyed the production of it with the background noises that were accompanied. the ending surprised me a little because i didn’t expect the person that was chosen and was thinking it would be someone else. kind of a sad ending though but good nonetheless."
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"You can tell just by reading this book that it was a book written with love and attention to detail. Readers have been obsessed with Hill House since its inception and for any writer to successfully take readers back into its clutches, the story would have to be new and unique. Hand delivers on the perfect premise for a return; a struggling playwright, a struggling songwriter and not one but Two actors struggling to deal with their pasts come to Hill House for a chance to rehearse and plan THE big comeback play, about a witch no less. If you can’t see all the desperation held in that sentence, Hill House can definitely smell it and of course it will use it to get what it wants. What unfolds in the pages is creepy, dark, and unimaginable but that’s exactly why I pick books like this. I loved the small details that touch back to the original work and the characters feel like they were perfectly created for this twisted world. This is a perfect spooky season book.<br/><br/>Thank you to #NovelSuspectsInsiders for giving me and advanced copy of this book and thank you to Nightworms for making the finished copy a part of your October book package."
Nicole Falche
