A Haunting on the Hill is a stirring tribute to a horror legend and an instant haunted house classic in its own right.
Every horror subgenre has a legacy, a particular dark shadow that’s hard to escape no matter how inventive you get with your stories. In the world of haunted house stories, Shirley Jackson’s, maybe even longer. It’s a towering, singularly influential piece of fiction, and stepping into its shoes to do something new takes guts.
With the official sanction of Jackson’s own estate , Hand set out to craft a new Hill House journey, again following a quartet of people with a job to do who sequester themselves in the legendary, and legendarily dangerous, mansion. This time, though, we’re not following would-be ghost-hunters. Instead, Hand follows four people who are hoping to rehearse for a play that just might change all of their fortunes.
Together, they hope that Holly’s play will buoy everything about their respective lives, and when she stumbles upon Hill House while out for a drive in upstate New York one day, Holly decides it’s the perfect atmospheric venue to get their creative juices flowing. So, despite warnings of its own dark history, she rents out Hill House for two weeks, and the artists move in, eager to draw on the home’s energy to create something great.
There is, unsurprisingly, a reverence that grips the novel’s early pages, as Hand sketches out elements familiar to Jackson fans that range from the clash between “flatlanders” from the city and upstate locals who bring grim warnings to, of course, the indescribable menace of a place that, to an outsider, seems like just another dwelling.
But you came here to be spooked by a haunted house story, of course, and Hand definitely doesn’t let you down.pours on the page-turning thrills with elegant glee, delivering everything from slight chills to all-out madness, but this is not simply a haunted attraction full of jump scares and predictable weirdness. No, Hand haspreserved and adopted another key element of Jackson’s fiction: The unanswerable questions always lurking in the margins.
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