The Haunting of Hill House

Ā· Blackstone Audio Inc. Ā· Narrated by Bernadette Dunne
77 reviews
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7 hr 27 min
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Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.

Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.

This classic horror novel has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.

Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits. Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for sol...

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77 reviews
Raven
August 14, 2025
the Haunting is truly a marvelous and suspenseful true haunting as opposed to the over dramatized versions of what hauntings really are. everything is so ridiculous anymore even the movies are overdone outrageous and unbelievably stupid. I really like the story and I love this book this is the best haunting I've ever read, and I've read many, but I have to say I wish they would have hired someone else to give the reading if not a Kathy Bates perhaps Angela Bassett or someone with a smooth voice but someone who can have a little suspense and a little fear when needed after all we try to imagine the story as it's being read to us. I like the books where they put sound effects in like people walking down a hole in a door closing squeaking open.
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Andy Dean
October 24, 2018
Took almost an hour (book isn't super long even) for he first character to even get to the house. So dull and so boring. I only paid 89 cents and still don't want to own it. The voice acting was ok, story sucked.
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C
September 20, 2018
The audio book is well read with a great job distinguishing each character. I felt I wanted a little bit more out of the book itself. The parts that were gripping faded and the characters seemed to move on without a believable attitude toward some of the events. Overall it was a good book but I expected more.
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About the author

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote such classic novels as We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, ā€œThe Lottery.ā€ Her work has been adapted to film, television, and theater and has influenced generations of writers that followed.

Bernadette Dunne is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote such classic novels as We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House, as well as one of the most famous short stories in the English language, ā€œThe Lottery.ā€ Her work has been adapted to film, television, and th...

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