Essays on The Haunting of Hill House

In the first fairy tale Eleanor tells herself while on her way to Hill House, she sees a large house with, “a pair of stone lions guarding the steps”. In her imagination, not only do the lions serve as her protection, but there is a…

Who Is Eleanor Vance? In Shirley Jackson’s tragic novel, The Haunting of Hill House, one of the main characters, Eleanor Vance, reveals herself to the reader by subtly hinting at her polite, quiet insanity. Eleanor ventures to Hill House to explore the house’s confines and…

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE In the conclusion of the book, you are shown the death of Eleanor. I came to the realization that a very similar death was described previously in the book. Eighteen years before, a man left Hill House in darkness and…

The story takes place during the 1950s at a place called Hill House which has a miserable reputation of being haunted. Dr. Montague wants to investigate this supernatural phenomenon and decides to invite a group of people who themselves have had supernatural experiences to live…

We as a whole love awfulness or phantom stories, isn’t that right? Some are not all that spooky while some are spine-shivering. In any case, each story or novel has a wonderful bend in it giving the peruser a value moral at last. In my…