Tag: Haunting of Hill House

• Recommended reading: White Is for Witching

  At this time of year, when the leaves are changing colors and there is a little nip in the air, it’s only natural that we start craving ghost stories. With that in mind, here is a recommendation for you: White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. Miranda Silver is the ultimate goth girl, pale with jet black […]

  Shannon Turlington

  October 22, 2016

  Reading

  Autumnal books, Ghost stories, Haunted houses, Haunting of Hill House, Helen Oyeyemi, Recommended Reading, White Is for Witching

• The Haunting of Hill House: a love story?

  Is Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece, The Haunting of Hill House, really a love story? Check out my essay.

  Shannon Turlington

  October 23, 2015

  Asides

  Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

• Halloween picks: The Scariest books

  I usually like to get in the Halloween spirit by reading a scary book or two. This year, my top pick is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. If you like Stephen King, you’ll love this book by his son. Not only does it read like King, but it reads like King at his absolute best–one of those great big […]

  Shannon Turlington

  October 30, 2014

  Reading

  Classics, Day of the Triffids, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe, Frankenstein, Halloween, Haunting of Hill House, Heart-Shaped Box, HG Wells, Horror, House on the Borderland, HP Lovecraft, Ira Levin, IT, Joe Hill, John Wyndham, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Max Brooks, NOS4A2, Ray Bradbury, Rosemary’s Baby, Scariest books, Scary, Scott Smith, Shirley Jackson, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Stephen King, The Ruins, The Shining, War of the Worlds, William Hope Hodgson, World War Z

• The opening line…

  Stephen King shares his thoughts on why opening lines are so important and why he spends so much time crafting them in Why Stephen King Spends ‘Months and Even Years’ Writing Opening Sentences – Atlantic Mobile. As a reader, an opening line is a greeting from the author. Do I feel welcomed? Do I want to […]

  Shannon Turlington

  August 1, 2013

  Notebook

  Bulwer-Lytton contest, First lines, Haunting of Hill House, Lonesome Dove, Nineteen Eighty-Four, No Country for Old Men, Stephen King