If it wasn't for book club, I never would have read this. Many reviews I read said it was the scariest of all books....but I didn't find it really scary. It really meandered. The plot finally started to move in the last 25 pages. All the people were kind of dull and definitely lonely...and crazy. It was published in 1959 and has that rambling, excessively wordy feeling of classic books. Meh.
I'm glad I ventured into a new genre, but I can't say I really loved it.
Goodreads says:
“Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within. . . .”
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding, they cannot possibly know what lies ahead. For Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
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