TY - BOOK AU - Jackson,Shirley TI - The haunting of hill house AV - PS 3519 .J12 1960 U1 - FIC PY - 1959/// CY - London PB - M. Joseph KW - Haunted houses KW - Fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcsh KW - Gothic fiction KW - gsafd KW - Horror fiction N2 - Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and light-hearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own ER -