Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding, they cannot possibly know what lies ahead. For Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

Originally published in 1959, The Haunting of Hill House remains “widely regarded as the greatest haunted-house story ever written” (The Wall Street Journal). This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Shirley Jackson’s Gothic masterpiece, with original cover art by Aron Wiesenfeld and an introduction by Laura Miller, commemorates the centennial of Jackson’s birth and the abiding terror of her greatest creation.