‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’
I have read it every YEAR since I was in High School. OMG! It’s an amazing MASTERPIECE that I will never, EVER forget. If they make it into a movie, I will kill myself, LOL!
‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is also a classic - they made it into a movie and it was...BLECH!
Shirley Jackson was an author that I found by accident. When I was in High School, I would go to our local Library, hit the Adult Fiction *GASP* racks and pick a book off of each shelf, alphabetically.
Jackson’s short stories (The Lottery) are simply amazing and jaw-dropping! ANY of them - they’re ALL jewels.
I found SO many amazing Authors that way, from Atwood to Baldwin to Heller to Jackson to O’Hara to Vonnegut.
‘The Haunting of Hill House’ is also a classic - they made it into a movie and it was...BLECH!
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WHAT?! The movie is almost universally hailed as the scariest ghost movie ever. Or are you talking about the wretched remake?
I have the original book, by the way, and the 1963 film is very close - even using much of the dialogue.
I agree. In the genre we call Gothic fiction, it's absolutely brilliant. Concise, atmospheric, just enough but never too much horror. I'm sure that a movie would be just awful.
I have not read "The Haunting of Hill House."
It sure scared the living you-know-what out of me, when I watched it late at night on a black-and-white TV back when I was in high school.
Scariest movie I ever saw. Spielberg's Something Evil was number two.