A Haunting on the Hill

From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House--a "scary and beautifully written" (Neil Gaiman) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time.

Open the door . . . .

Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play.

Despite her own hesitations, Holly's girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join Holly in renting the house for a month, and soon a troupe of actors, each with ghosts of their own, arrive. Yet as they settle in, the house's peculiarities are made known: strange creatures stalk the grounds, disturbing sounds echo throughout the halls, and time itself seems to shift. All too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. It seems something has been waiting in Hill House all these years, and it no longer intends to walk alone . . .

"Hill House is back and haunting as ever." --Ana Reyes
"A fitting--and frightening--homage." --New York Times Book Review
"It's thrilling to find this is a true hybrid of these two ingenious women's work--a novel with all the chills of Jackson that also highlights the contemporary flavor and evocative writing of Hand." --Washington Post
"A timeless, gothic ode that serves up the stuff of nightmares." --Kirkus Reviews
"Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson's rage, wit, and vision." --Paul Tremblay
"Eerily beautiful, strangely seductive, and genuinely upsetting." --Alix E. Harrow
"Keeps the scares coming." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Author: Elizabeth Hand
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 10/03/2023
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316527323


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 47
Library Journal 09/01/2023 pg. 87
Publishers Weekly 10/16/2023
BookPage 10/01/2023

About the Author
Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction, including Hokuloa Road, The Book of Lamps and Banners and Curious Toys. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards. She's a longtime critic and contributor of essays for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Boston Review, and the Village Voice, among many others. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London.