A Haunting on the Hill

De: Elizabeth Hand

Narrado por: Carol Monda

Duración: 10 h y 19 m

Resumen del Editor

SIXTY YEARS LATER, HILL HOUSE IS OCCUPIED AGAIN . . .

Discover the landmark first novel ever to return to Hill House, officially authorised by the Shirley Jackson estate.

Whatever walks there, no longer walks alone . . .

Playwright Holly Sherwin is close to her big break. Having received a grant to develop her new play, all she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. Then on a weekend away, she stumbles upon Hill House - an ornate if crumbling gothic mansion, near-hidden outside a small town.

Soon Holly's troupe of actors - each with ghosts of their own - arrive at Hill House for a creative retreat. But before long they find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself.

For something has been waiting patiently in Hill House all these years.

Something no longer content to walk alone.

©2023 Elizabeth Hand (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK

Reseñas de la Crítica

Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as Jackson's original, A Haunting on the Hill is quite extraordinary. It's not pastiche, not ventriloquism. It puts me strongly in mind of a singer you love covering a song by another artist. It's that song but now it's being done by someone else. Remarkable. (NEIL GAIMAN, author of AMERICAN GODS)

Beautifully creepy with the same claustrophobic intensity and sense of impending doom of the original, but at the same time with a great sense of progression, of the house having evolved over the years. It's so vivid, full of totemic menace and with a heart-in-your-mouth, can't-look-away frisson. (BRIDGET COLLINS, author of THE BINDING)

Genuinely sinister and beautifully written, with a real sense of depth to the folklore and theatrical inspiration. (ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN)

Don't listen on a long journey, you will fall asleep.

Not too much to it. Lacking character and story development and horror elements were vague and flacid. Things that were slightly interesting as story arcs were circles that were never explored again.