Jackson employs chillingly effective Gothic ghost story writing skills. Using the central symbol and setting of Hill House, she has its supernatural presences work on all the characters, with the most sensitive suffering the most.
Readers encounter poundings, scratchings, odd presences — all the paraphernalia of the ghost story, and a few others not so typical, depicted with freshness and the right touch.....
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