Tag: psychological horror

• The Psychological Horror of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House

  As the bridge between scholarly classic reading and Spooktober’s chilling thrills, I thought Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House would be an excellent final post for September’s Scholarly Reading Month. Not only is Shirley Jackson an absolute beast of a horror writer in the best possible way, but The Haunting of Hill House serves…

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  September 27, 2025

  Classic Fiction, Horror

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