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The first horror book I enjoyed reading was a classic: Wuthering Heights. While I hated Heathcliff throughout I loved the writing and read avidly to the very end. Haunting is just as exciting, a thrilling horror novel that keeps you on the edge of your chair until it spirals to the end. At that point you are fairly certain that one character will not survive. Whether others do or not is debatable at this point.
The characters are Eleanor, Luke, Theo (for Theodora), and Dr. Montague. Montague has heard much about this house and wants to study it but with an accompanying group of people to help him view the effects of the house. He has seemingly screened the group carefully yet these individuals are more interested in self-preservation except perhaps for Theo. I found myself liking, detesting, pitying and wanting to help Eleanor who seems to be the victim that the house wants to ensnare.
Jackson builds the horror with sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph, and scene after scene. While it is subtle the horror keeps rising. The writing is superb and the introduction by Stephen King clearly demonstrates his admiration of this writer throughout the many pages he devotes his analysis of the book.
I advise that you do not read that introduction if you have this edition as it gives too much information about what happens during the telling. Save that enjoyment until you have read the novel. Both are well done! I found tale most entertaining and exciting to read. All the horror exists in the mind or does it?
The characters are Eleanor, Luke, Theo (for Theodora), and Dr. Montague. Montague has heard much about this house and wants to study it but with an accompanying group of people to help him view the effects of the house. He has seemingly screened the group carefully yet these individuals are more interested in self-preservation except perhaps for Theo. I found myself liking, detesting, pitying and wanting to help Eleanor who seems to be the victim that the house wants to ensnare.
Jackson builds the horror with sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph, and scene after scene. While it is subtle the horror keeps rising. The writing is superb and the introduction by Stephen King clearly demonstrates his admiration of this writer throughout the many pages he devotes his analysis of the book.
I advise that you do not read that introduction if you have this edition as it gives too much information about what happens during the telling. Save that enjoyment until you have read the novel. Both are well done! I found tale most entertaining and exciting to read. All the horror exists in the mind or does it?
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