The Haunting of Hill House

Reading this downstairs at night alone was a pretty bad idea. Yes, it is a book but I do tend to get imaginative with my readings and with this book, I ended up scaring myself several times. “The Haunting of Hill House” pretty much had every aspect of what a horror (Gothic) story means to be. The four people of the house experiences strange events but it seems Eleanor gets the scariest end of it all. In a way, she seems to slowly lose her grip on reality and where she steadily falls into what her imagination created. It could have been from the poltergeist before from her memories where everything seemed to revolve around only her. But from it all, it seems that she becomes every unstable at the end that she dies. It seems to be left open to interpretation to the fact that did Eleanor simply commit suicide or something about Hill House that played a part in her death.

On another note, Mrs. Dudley and Mrs. Montague were like a breath of fresh air in the book compared to everything else. Mrs. Dudley’s bluntness and Mrs. Montague’s lack of social skills lightened the book up a tad.