A Haunting on the Hill

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Following on from where Shirley Jacksons' timeless ghost story left off, discover the first ever authorised sequel to The Haunting of Hill House. Sixty years after the terrible events at Hill House, history is set to repeat itself. When a group of actors set up a rehearsal retreat in an old abandoned property, they think they have found the perfect inspiration for THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. But they soon sense a hostile presence in the house. Then the horrors unfold. By the end of the summer, will any of them survive? For whatever walks in Hill House, walks alone . . . Vorwort The first ever authorised sequel to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House from the three-times winner of the Shirley Jackson Award Zusammenfassung 'Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as Jackson's original ' NEIL GAIMAN Discover the landmark first novel ever to return to Hill House, officially authorised by the Shirley Jackson estate. 'It's so vivid, full of totemic menace and with a heart-in-your-mouth, can't-look-away frisson' BRIDGET COLLINS 'In some ways even more enjoyable than the original. Genuinely sinister and beautifully written' ROSIE ANDREWS 'Welcome back to Hill House. Read by daylight, and never alone' ALIX E. HARROW 'Hill House is back and as haunting as ever. Some of the most striking scares I've read in years' ANA REYES ___ Sixty years later, Hill House is occupied again Playwright 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. Soon 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. For something has been waiting patiently in Hill House all these years. Something no longer content to walk alone. ___ 'Evocative and unsettling, capturing the essence of the original whilst offering something brand new' CARLY REAGON 'A novel dripping in atmosphere and intrigue' JOANNE BURN 'As unnerving and disorienting as Hill House itself' LAURA SHEPPERSON 'A subtle and deeply unnerving ghost story' AMANDA MASON 'Creepy, tragic, and haunting. I tore through its pages' VICTOR LaVALLE 'Not a simple act of ventriloquism but a true marriage of minds' DAN CHAON ...

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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.

Klappentext

Following on from where Shirley Jacksons' timeless ghost story left off, discover the first ever authorised sequel to The Haunting of Hill House.

Sixty years after the terrible events at Hill House, history is set to repeat itself. When a group of actors set up a rehearsal retreat in an old abandoned property, they think they have found the perfect inspiration for THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. But they soon sense a hostile presence in the house. Then the horrors unfold. By the end of the summer, will any of them survive? For whatever walks in Hill House, walks alone . . .

Zusammenfassung

'Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as Jackson's original' NEIL GAIMAN

Discover the landmark first novel ever to return to Hill House, officially authorised by the Shirley Jackson estate.

'It's so vivid, full of totemic menace and with a heart-in-your-mouth, can't-look-away frisson' BRIDGET COLLINS

'In some ways even more enjoyable than the original. Genuinely sinister and beautifully written' ROSIE ANDREWS

'Welcome back to Hill House. Read by daylight, and never alone' ALIX E. HARROW

'Hill House is back and as haunting as ever. Some of the most striking scares I've read in years' ANA REYES

Sixty years later, Hill House is occupied again

Playwright 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.

Soon 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.

For something has been waiting patiently in Hill House all these years.
Something no longer content to walk alone.

'Evocative and unsettling, capturing the essence of the original whilst offering something brand new' CARLY REAGON

'A novel dripping in atmosphere and intrigue' JOANNE BURN

'As unnerving and disorienting as Hill House itself' LAURA SHEPPERSON

'A subtle and deeply unnerving ghost story' AMANDA MASON

'Creepy, tragic, and haunting. I tore through its pages' VICTOR LaVALLE

'Not a simple act of ventriloquism but a true marriage of minds' DAN CHAON