The Haunting of Hill House

New York: Viking, (1959). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 246 pp. Original quarter yellow cloth over teal cloth-covered boards, stamped in black, in original unclipped ($3.95) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners, with a few small tears and chips to spine ends. Light fading to spine. Nicks, handling and shelf wear commensurate with use. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm with light forward lean. Light pulling from spine crown, hinges lightly shaken. Trace spine fade. Light wear to edges with trace fading/toning to panel edges. Top stain still mostly vibrant - with a few tiny droplets. Light curling to spine ends.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“A finalist for the National Book Award and considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century, it has been made into two feature films and a play, and is the basis of a Netflix series. Jackson's novel relies on terror rather than horror to elicit emotion in the reader, using complex relationships between the mysterious events in the house and the characters' psyches. The author decided to write "a ghost story" after reading about a group of nineteenth century "psychic researchers" who studied a house and somberly reported their supposedly scientific findings to the Society for Psychic Research. What Jackson discovered in their "dry reports was not the story of a haunted house, it was the story of several earnest, I believe misguided, certainly determined people, with their differing motivations and background."