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source: bookwyrm
date: 2025-01-26 19:05:34.00 +00
title: "The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson"
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book_title: "The Haunting of Hill House"
book_author: "Shirley Jackson"
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![Cover of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, published 2009-11-10 by Penguin Group UK, ebook](./cover-6394516.jpeg)

""How weary one gets of this constant pounding," Theodora said ridiculously. "Next summer, I must really go somewhere else."
  "There are disadvantages everywhere," Luke told her. "In the lake regions you get mosquitoes.""

 — Shirley Jackson: _The Haunting of Hill House_, p. 147

A fun break, finished in a day, deserving of it's reputation.