# A Haunting on the Hill: A Novel

**Elizabeth Hand**

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From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's _The Haunting of Hill House_—a “scary and beautifully written” (Neil Gaiman) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time. Open the door . . . .

Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play _Witching Night_, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It’s enormous, old, and ever-so eerie—the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play.

Despite her own hesitations, Holly’s girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join Holly in renting the house for a month, and soon a troupe of actors, each with ghosts of their own, arrive. Yet as they settle in, the house’s peculiarities are made known: strange creatures stalk the grounds, disturbing sounds echo throughout the halls, and time itself seems to shift. All too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. It seems something has been waiting in Hill House all these years, and it no longer intends to walk alone . . ..

> “The lines of paranoia, art, and reality are terrifyingly blurred . . . only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson's rage, wit, and vision with a twenty-first-century twist.” —Paul Tremblay.

> “Hill House is back and haunting as ever in this vividly imagined return to Shirley Jackson’s iconic setting . . . This book gave me the best kind of nightmares.” —Ana Reyes.

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**Books Mentioned in Fall Book Recommendations:**

*Misc.*  
↳ Rouge  
↳ She Walks in Shadows  
↳ Silver Nitrate

*Dark Academia*  
↳ In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology  
↳ Vita Nostra  
↳ Plain Bad Heroines

*“Classic” Horror*  
↳ Rebecca  
↳ Interview with a Vampire  
↳ Dark Tales

*Real World Horror*  
↳ Natural Beauty  
↳ Lakewood  
↳ Her Body and Other Parties  
↳ Bad Cree  
↳ Weight of Blood

*Vampires*  
↳ Vampires of El Norte  
↳ A Dowry of Blood  
↳ Masters of Death  
↳ House of Hunger  
↳ The Book Eaters

*Haunted House Books*  
↳ A House with Good Bones  
↳ She Is a Haunting  
↳ The Hacienda  
↳ Just Like Home

*Deathly Retellings*  
↳ A Haunting on the Hill  
↳ The Death I Gave Him  
↳ One for My Enemy

*Cozy Fantasies*  
↳ Legends & Lattes  
↳ The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches  
↳ Venco  
↳ Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

*Fantasies*  
↳ Nettle & Bone  
↳ Gods of Jade and Shadow  
↳ Juniper & Thorn  
↳ The Wolf & the Woodsman  
↳ The Bone Orchard  
↳ The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

*Other*  
↳ My Dark Vanessa  
↳ Station Eleven  
↳ Glass Hotel  
↳ Sea of Tranquility

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