The Haunting of Hill House seemed elegantly creepy. It wasn't like the horror stories you read or watch today with disfigured faces yawning
in a grotesque disfigurement, or outright knowing of what it is that’s going on
in the story. It’s more than just the sanity of the members in the house
however; the omniscient attitude of Mrs. Dubly, the fact that all the people in
the house are experiencing it, gives the sense that something not in this world
is going on. But what’s beautiful about this story is that it’s so subtle and
so ill explained that the reader doesn't know if the members in the house are
going to be okay or not. Is something hunting them? Is something trying to use
their energy to continue powering the house? It seems to have drawn Eleanor
into itself, to keep forever, someone so vulnerable and innocent to the world
she missed out on and was locked away. The Haunting of Hill House is a graceful
and subtle ghost story that needs to be remembered .
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