Haunting, The - Ruby Jean Jensen

The title of this book is exactly how this book makes you feel. It is extremely scary, so don't let others tell you otherwise. In a nutshell, the Haunting (of Hill House) is about how an experience makes a certain person (won't tell who) turn into an evil, sinister person. Although the story may be a bit strange, it has twisted plots and people. Also, the ending is a very unexpected, yet foretold, event in itself. I highly reccommend this books to anyone and everyone! ...  Read the complete review

Most of us will know The Haunting as the movie staring Liam Neeson and Catharine Zeta Jones. But the special effects and hauntings within this film are additions to the plot that began in Shirley Jacksons novel, The Haunting of Hill House. The book contains none of the exaggerated haunting featured in the film, but a more complex haunting. A haunting most vivid in the minds of those involved. It expresses the vulnerability of one character, Eleanor Lance. But this vulnerability which causes her to become "attatched" to the house is not featured in the films. Probably because it does not make for interesting watching, or reading. If one wished to ...  Read the complete review