The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased, get away from here at once. When Eleanor Vance is invited to join a group of ghost hunters to assess the strange happenings at the house, she jumps at the chance. But what begins as a simple experiment soon turns into the stuff of nightmares. Shirley Jackson's chilling tale is one of the twentieth century's most effective and unsettling ghost stories.