
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
1959

Susan Hill · 1983
160 pages
A young London lawyer is sent to a remote house to sort the papers of a dead client. In the town nearby he meets an unfriendly silence, a sea mist that cuts him off, and a woman dressed in black whose appearances are followed by the deaths of children.
Ghost Story, Haunted House, Gothic Manor, Creeping Dread, Gothic, Small Town Secrets