The wealth of previous examples of Gothic ghost stories to which Jackson adds her novel reaches back to at least Roman times. Works such as The Castle of Otranto (Walpole; 1765), The Mysteries of Udolph o (Radcliffe; 1794), to some degree Frankenstein (Shelley; 1818) and Dracula (Stoker; 1897), and scores of others form the long tradition in which Jackson is writing.
As Carol Cleveland has perceptively shown, Jackson can.....
This is a free excerpt of 69 words. This section contains 133 words. This
study guide contains 30,563 words (approx. 102 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Literature Guide with our The Haunting of Hill House Access Pass.
