So like I said the other day with Light Years and how Ender’s Game is just a sub-genre now, the whole “people trying to get to the bottom of a haunted house through a combination of parapsychology, scientific method, and psychical powers” ala The Haunting of Hill House is a sub-genre too. In Shirley Jackson’s novel, which is quite subtle in its narration, themes, and spookiness. There’s a suggestion that our main character’s sense of self and questions about her sexual identity are being explored […]
There were no servants to maintain the house; they were indistinguishable from the guests by then.
Hell House by Richard Matheson
