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Dr. Mon­tague is an occult scholar and he wants some solid evi­dence about the phe­nom­e­non called haunt­ing. He sets his eyes on Hill House, a big man­sion up in the hills, to con­duct his study. The house is said to be haunted and any­body who tried liv­ing there, moved out after only three or four days (and nights). Dr. Mon­tague is set on explain­ing. To do so he invites three oth­ers to live with him in Hill House, all some­what expe­ri­enced in the phe­nom­e­non. First there is Theodora, his light­hearted assis­tant, always in for a good scar­ing and laugh. Then there is Luke, the heir to be of the place. He has to be there, because of his aunt, who didn’t want any­one in the place with­out some fam­ily. And last but not least, there is Eleanor, an emo­tion­ally unsta­ble girl, no stranger to the ‘unknown’. How long will they stand the haunt­ing of Hill House?

A pleas­ant read. It was my first book ever in the hor­ror genre, but I liked it. It is not gory, blood doesn’t come gash­ing out of peo­ple. It is more a sus­pense and psy­cho­log­i­cal hor­ror book. My first impres­sion was, that the story is sim­i­lar to the Hitch­cock sto­ries. Any­way, you should read this, even if you’re not a big fan of the hor­ror genre.

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