:INFO
The Novel That Made My Apartment Feel Inhabited
I started The Haunting of Hill House at 10pm on a Thursday because I thought two chapters before bed would be fine. It was not fine. Shirley Jackson's novel operates through the slow accumulation of wrongness: architecture that does not follow the rules of architecture, angles that are not quite right, a narrator whose perception you stop being able to trust. By midnight I was not enjoying the book. I was enduring it and I could not stop.


:NOW
Wondering if Eleanor was ever safe from the beginning

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Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within.


:JOURNEY
Reading Hill House
5 Perfect construction
5 Unmatched wrongness
5 Precise and unsettling
5 Completely earned

:NOW
Thinking about rereading The Haunting of Hill House during the day to see whether the experience is different in the light.