So having not updated my blog since… January, I have a lot of things to add. Let’s begin first with a book I read earlier this year, “The Haunting on Hill House”. See, I had seen the movie “The Haunting” (Catherine Zeta-Jones et al circa 1999) and more recently the Netflix series and I said to myself, you have never read that book. So I read the book.
I like the way the book was written. Weirdly I felt more compelled by the show, not sure if it was because I had fallen in such love with the show or because I had had a few versions of the story running loose in my head. The book is a ghost story, for those of you who don’t know the tale. A Psychiatrist (psychologist? Paranormal investigator?) invites a few people he finds to have… connections to the paranormal in some way to the house for the summer to study the house. His goal is to see if there are any goings-on at the home, and to see if it is triggered by any of these special visitors (Eleanor, Theo, and Luke). As the story progresses there are unexplainable situations, internal revelations, and plenty to keep the reader interested.
I love ghost stories, I love the ideas of haunted houses. I think this book was good. I read it very quickly and it was enjoyable. I do however just find the Netflix show so absolutely chilling and beautiful that I can’t shake that I like it more. Perhaps had I read the original first… but alas.
A good spooky story for a chilly spooky night.
Jah Will Provide 