The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jacksonas "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 ahauntinga; 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 powersaand soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

雪莉•杰克逊（Shirley Jackson,1916—1965）

美国女作家,二战后美国最受欢迎的恐怖小说作家之一,其短篇作品曾获得欧•亨利短篇小说奖（1949年）和爱伦•坡最佳短篇小说奖（1961年,1966年）,并多次入选年度“最佳美国短篇小说”。

雪莉•杰克逊的恐怖小说多表现个体孤独体验和心理恐惧感,评论界普遍认为这些作品映射出了集中营、原子弹等二战以来出现的事物所造成的社会动荡与恐怖。2007年,以其名字命名的“雪莉•杰克逊奖”正式设立,该奖每年评选一次,用以表彰心理悬疑、恐怖以及黑暗奇幻文学中的优秀作品。

长篇小说《邪屋》（The Haunting of Hill House）创作于1959年,于次年获得美国国家图书奖提名,现已成为美国文学中的经典。斯蒂芬•金对本书极为推崇,并在其恐怖文学评论集《死之舞》（Danse Macabre）中称引本书多达十余次；有论者直言,就单部作品而言,没有哪部小说会比《邪屋》对斯蒂芬•金的创作影响更大。