The HAUNTING of HILL HOUSE by JACKSON, SHIRLEY (author) : DEL TORO, GUILLERMO (introduction and edtior) - 2013

New York: Penguin Horror, 2013. Book. Illus. by BUCKLEY, PAUL (art and design). Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. HB - 1st. Print - FINE in Illustrated Boards / No DJ as issued - The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. 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..