Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as Jackson's original' NEIL GAIMAN \nDiscover the landmark first novel ever to return to Hill House, officially authorised by the Shirley Jackson estate. \nt's so vivid, full of totemic menace and with a heart-in-your-mouth, can't-look-away frisson' BRIDGET COLLINS \n'In some ways even more enjoyable than the original. Genuinely sinister and beautifully written' ROSIE ANDREWS \nWelcome back to Hill House. Read by daylight, and never alone' ALIX E. HARROW \nHill House is back and as haunting as ever. Some of the most striking scares I've read in years' ANA REYESSixty years later, Hill House is occupied again \n\nPlaywright Holly Sherwin is close to her big break. Having received a grant to develop her new play, all she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. Then on a weekend away, she stumbles upon Hill House - an ornate if crumbling gothic mansion, near-hidden outside a small town. \n\nSoon Holly's troupe of actors - each with ghosts of their own - arrive at Hill House for a creative retreat. But before long they find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. \n\nFor something has been waiting patiently in Hill House all these years. \nSomething no longer content to walk alone.
Elizabeth Hand is the author of twenty-plus cross-genre novels and five collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards. She's a longtime critic and contributor of essays for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Boston Review, and the Village Voice, among many others. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London.
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