Little, Brown Book Group Paperback English
A Haunting on the Hill
Return to Shirley Jackson's classic ghost story for Halloween
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THE FIRST AUTHORISED FOLLOW-UP NOVEL TO THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE 'A fitting - and frightening - homage to The Haunting of Hill House ' NEW YORK TIMES 'Full of totemic menace and a heart-in-mouth, can't-look-away frisson' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Beautifully creepy. Welcome back to Hill House' ALIX E. HARROW 'Like Hill House itself, this accomplished tribute stands alone: disturbing and unforgettable' GUARDIAN 'A Haunting on the Hill captures the essence of the original whilst offering something brand new' CARLY REAGON **Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar** ______ Whatever walks there, no longer walks alone . . . Playwright Holly Sherwin is close to her big break. Having received a grant to develop her new play, all she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. Then on a weekend away, she stumbles upon Hill House - an ornate if crumbling gothic mansion, near-hidden outside a small town. Soon Holly's troupe of actors - each with ghosts of their own - arrive at Hill House for a creative retreat. But before long they find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. For something has been waiting patiently in Hill House all these years. Something no longer content to walk alone.
THE FIRST AUTHORISED FOLLOW-UP NOVEL TO THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
'A fitting - and frightening - homage to The Haunting of Hill House ' NEW YORK TIMES
'Full of totemic menace and a heart-in-mouth, can't-look-away frisson' BRIDGET COLLINS
'Beautifully creepy. Welcome back to Hill House' ALIX E. HARROW
'Like Hill House itself, this accomplished tribute stands alone: disturbing and unforgettable' GUARDIAN
'A Haunting on the Hill captures the essence of the original whilst offering something brand new' CARLY REAGON
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar**
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Whatever walks there, no longer walks alone . . .
Playwright Holly Sherwin is close to her big break. Having received a grant to develop her new play, all she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. Then on a weekend away, she stumbles upon Hill House - an ornate if crumbling gothic mansion, near-hidden outside a small town.
Soon Holly's troupe of actors - each with ghosts of their own - arrive at Hill House for a creative retreat. But before long they find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself.
For something has been waiting patiently in Hill House all these years.
Something no longer content to walk alone.