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The scariest place of all, the book tells us, is inside our own heads. But as the hauntings progress, it seems increasingly possible that the so-called ghosts might actually be Eleanor’s psychic projections. At first, it appears that the house, which itself may possess supernatural powers, identifies Eleanor - a spinster who has spent most of her life taking care of her invalid mother - as the most vulnerable of the crew and preys on her feelings of isolation. One character believes she is clutching another’s hand in the dark, only to discover when the lights go on that no one is there. Messages appear written in blood on the walls. Something pounds as loud as a cannonball on the bedroom doors at night and tries to open them. When the story begins, a small group of ad hoc “psychical researchers” - that is, 1950s ghost hunters - are living in the house to record its supernatural manifestations, which are … impressive. It’s hard to say exactly what makes the book so scary, but my guess is that it’s the ambiguity. When The New York Times recently asked a bunch of horror aficionados to name the scariest book they ever read, three of them mentioned Hill House. Stephen King called this dark jewel of a book one of the “only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” (The other was Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.) It’s less than 200 pages, but I don’t recommend it as bedtime reading. The Haunting of Hill House (1959) is my favorite novel by Shirley Jackson, an author with whom I’m so obsessed that I spent six years writing her biography.
FULL HOUSE SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 TV
First, a confession: I’ve never gone into a TV show with more trepidation.