Is this the best Haunted House book ever written? I don’t know as I haven’t read all the Haunted House books ever written. Let me say its the best one I have ever read (second best being Stephen King’s The Shining).

Rather than an out right “scare fest” Shirley Jackson lets us live the experience via her Character Eleanor. We walk those corridors (with the doors that keep shutting themselves) in the mind of Eleanor. The house is slowly tearing Eleanor apart. Is it real? Is it imagined? Is Eleanor going crazy? In the end, does it matter? To find out why not spend a few nights at Haunted Hill House.