{"product_id":"the-haunting-of-hill-house-movie-tiein-isbn-9780143134190","title":"The Haunting of Hill House (Movie Tie-In)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFirst published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/i\u003e 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 occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.\"[One of] the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” —Stephen King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The scariest book I’ve ever read.\" —Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The books that have profoundly scared me...are few....But Shirley Jackson's \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/i\u003e beat them all...It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still.\"—Neil Gaiman, author of \u003ci\u003eNorse Mythology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirley Jackson \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for “The Lottery,” which was published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ein 1948 and went on to become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature. She is the author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle;\u003c\/i\u003e four collections of short stories and essays, including \u003ci\u003eJust an Ordinary Day;\u003c\/i\u003e and two family memoirs, \u003ci\u003eLife Among the Savages \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRaising Demons\u003c\/i\u003e. For many years she lived in North Bennington, Vermont, with her husband, the renowned literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, and their four children. She died on August 8, 1965.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304289325285,"sku":"NP9780143134190","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143134190.jpg?v=1767739731","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-haunting-of-hill-house-movie-tiein-isbn-9780143134190","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}