Subject: The Haunting of Hill House
From: Paul Miller (phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: Sat Oct 20 2001 - 21:49:59 GMT
With the soon coming of Haloween I thought I would post the first paragraph
of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House". This is one of the very
few "literary" classics in the scary genre. Published in 1959 Jackson's
novel is exceptional and if you have seen one of the movies the book is
totaly different and better, the movies they will ruin it every time, that
being a Holdenesque opinion also I will let that stand as OBSALR.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of
absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness
within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and
doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of
Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
Paul
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