pickSo good! Premise: your dream home turns out to be haunted. Do you just ignore the growing issues, learn the rules of the place, stay? Twists, turns, family, and ghosts, so many ghosts. Fun but also touches on some serious issues. I could relate to some of the real life issues (tagged in spoiler comment) and when the dark fantasy twists came, I was there for it.
No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee and the eyebrow of a cornice. Almost any house, caught unexpectedly ⬇️
The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.
I should have turned back at the gate, Eleanor thought. Beyond everything else she was afraid, listening to the sick voice inside her, which whispered, Get away from here, get away.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of⬇️
Free coffee truck today at work…I‘m taking advantage of this steaming hot cappuccino! The Barista commented on the book and said they loved it.
ICYMI: Grady Hendrix's "HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE" is officially being adapted into a movie!
Legendary Entertainment won the movie rights to the bestselling novel and is currently developing the adaptation, with James Ashcroft attached to direct.
The movie adaptation is still in early development phase so not a lot of details have been shared!
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Author Photo by Albert Mitchell!
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About half way through this audio book and it‘s keeping me riveted even stuck waiting an extra 40 minutes for the train in the rain. Spoiler/ I love the unreliable narrator twist / despite the slow start I‘m really excited (and terrified) to see where this goes.
The $8500 house the author wanted so badly. What?!
The Historic McConnell House in Wurtland, Kentucky, in Greenup County, near the Ohio River. Est. 1833.
pickI enjoy haunting memoirs. The author‘s story appears on the tv series Paranormal Witness, Season 2, Episode 2…but her book is much better. For years, she lived in fear in the old Brooklyn house she and her family lived in, until finding out what happened to the restless spirits occupying her home, and why they were there. Fascinating, personal. Books like this help open up the conversation for what many experience but fear to talk about.
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