About the Author

Shirley Jackson (1919–1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote many stories as well as six novels and two works of nonfiction.

Laura Miller, previously an editor at Salon.com, writes essays and reviews for the New York Times, the New Yorker, and other publications.

Reviews

"[One of] the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” —Stephen King

"The scariest book I’ve ever read." —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties

"The books that have profoundly scared me...are few....But Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House beat them all...It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still."—Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology