Morning Coffee Book Club

Read on the Edge with the Morning Coffee Book Club. Join us for a discussion of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson at 10:00 a.m. in the Cornelia White Community Room at the Welwood Murray Memorial Library.

The Morning Coffee Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. at the Welwood Murray Memorial Library and is open to everyone. Members of the club read the selected book for the month, then join in lively discussions. Please click here to see a list of future selections for the Morning Coffee Book Club.

Refreshments are generously provided by Aspen Mills Bakery. Thank you, Aspen Mills!

October 17, 2018

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

—The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre
 
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

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