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Consider reading other books by Shirley Jackson like Come Along with Me, Life Among the Savages, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Consider pairing The Haunting of Hill House with The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
Consider reading about Shirley Jackson in Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson by Judy Oppenheimer.
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The Question and Answer section for The Haunting of Hill House is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Family is rather disappointing to the characters: Hugh Crain was a perverse patriarch and his wives kept dying and leaving their daughters motherless; Eleanor's mother was a demanding crone; Luke has no mother; Dr. Montague's wife is a shrew; and...
I think for similar reasons that horror genre is maligned in in film. Some people feel the genre is full of violence and sensationalism with little meaning. We know, however, that it takes a master author or director to create a good horror.
No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house...ch 2
