Shirley Jackson
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| The Haunting of Hill House | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| by Shirley Jackson |
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| " If witchcraft is ever again thought of as a burning at a stake offense. Shirley Jackson will be the first in line" Written in 1959 and filmed in 1963, "The Haunting" is to this day considered the best of all haunted house stories. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This story of four people spending time in a haunted house has become a classic in the study or horror, and the understanding of human psychology. It is also the story of hunger and its feeding,.....both by our own needs, and that of what we call evil. Basicly is evil present or do we create the evil.? Are the feelings of cold, and sightings true, or are they projections of our inner fears and wants? Is the haunting real....or are we the haunting? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Why I choose to add "The Haunting" to my list of favorite things is not because I am morbid ,or only look at the dark side of everything. On the contrary I consider myself a man of Light (if you will), of Hope, and extreme Optimism. However, I do like to look into the human soul to try to understand why we do what we do, think the way we do, and react how we do. "The Haunting" attempts to answer some of these questions, but also raises even more questions about ourselves. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Is this old house really haunted and trying to draw Eleanor into it, or is Eleanor herself causing the hauntings? Does the house want her, and in the end gets her, or does she want to belong to the house, and puts things into action to become one with the house itself? The opening sentence sums up for us the history and the substence of what we call a "Haunted House". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| " No live organism can contiue 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". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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