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.
Release Date: September 18, 1963
Release Time: 114 minutes
Cast:
Julie Harris as Eleanor "Nell" Lance
Claire Bloom as Theodora "Theo"
Richard Johnson as Dr. John Markway
Russ Tamblyn as Luke Sanderson
Fay Compton as Mrs. Sanderson
Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Dudley
Lois Maxwell as Grace Markway
Valentine Dyall as Mr. Dudley
Diane Clare as Carrie Fredericks
Ronald Adam as Eldridge Harper
Uncredited roles
Pamela Buckley as First Mrs. Crain
Janet Mansell as 8-year-old Abigail Crain
Amy Dalby as 80-year-old Abigail Crain
Rosemary Dorken as Abigail Crain's Nurse-Companion
Verina Greenlaw as Dora Fredericks
Claude Jones as Garage Attendant
Freda Knorr as Second Mrs. Crain
Howard Lang as Hugh Crain
Paul Maxwell as Bud Fredericks
Susan Richards as Nurse
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.
She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse."
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