The Haunting of Hill House

A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss,black sprayed edgesblack-stained pagesand black endpapers. Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horrorselected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror seriesa new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del ToroΓÇÖs favoritesfrom Mary ShelleyΓÇÖs Frankenstein and Ray RussellΓÇÖs short story ΓÇ£SardonicusΓÇ¥ considered by Stephen King to be ΓÇ£perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever writtenΓÇ¥ to Shirley JacksonΓÇÖs The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray BradburyJoyce Carol OatesTed Kleinand Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckleythese stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horrorsci-fifantasyand paranormal aficionados everywhere. The Haunting of Hill House The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. First published in 1959Shirley 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. Montaguean occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ΓÇ£haunting;’ Theodorahis lighthearted assistant; Eleanora friendlessfragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Lukethe future heir of Hill House. At firsttheir stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powersΓÇöand soon it will choose one of them to make its own.