{"product_id":"the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson","title":"The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautifully designed clothbound edition of Shirley Jackson's chilling tale of power and fear\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate; and Eleanor a fragile young woman with a troubled past. As The House takes hold, Jackson plumbs the depths of the human condition, asking the electric question: will any of them make it out? This definitive horror novel blurs the lines between reality and imagination, between dream and nightmare. Beautiful, atmospheric and utterly terrifying, Jackson's magnum opus examines the shadows that lurk not just in cobwebbed corners, but in the facets of our very minds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'The Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/i\u003e rewrote horror's rules' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eShirley Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in California in 1916. When her short story, 'The Lottery'\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewas first published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Road Through the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in the same year and was followed by \u003ci\u003eHangsaman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bird's Nest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sundial\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWe Have Always Lived in the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 224 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65791339266397,"sku":"K097237725","price":17.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9723772500001A.jpg?v=1788375552","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}