Haunting of Hill House : Penguin Classic

Dr Montague a scientific investigator of ghostly phenomena has chosen to live for several weeks at Hill House by repute a place of horror that will brook no human habitation. To check and contribute to his observations he selects three companions previously unknown to him; two girls Theo and Eleanor and Luke a young man who is heir to Hill House. What happens cannot in fairness be told. But Dr Montague’s words were prophetic: ‘A ghost cannot hurt anyone; only the fear of ghosts can be dangerous.’ Whether the ghosts at Hill House caused the fear or the fear created the ghosts there were such manifestations as to produce finally an ultimate terror that was all too palpable and down-to-earth.