The greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series! One of The Atlantic s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years First published in 1959 Shirley Jackson s The Haunting of Hill House 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. For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1 700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.