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Jannes: Not sure if it is a coincidence, but the two perhaps best ghost stories ever written are both by women, in a genre otherwise mostly dominated by men.
Both are superb explorations of death, loss, fear, and all those other elementsthat make up the good supernatural tales.… (más)
SomeGuyInVirginia: Dahl's is the best collection of ghost stories available, and Jackson's is the best haunted house story of all time. I think they make a nice pair (as the bishop said to the chorus girl.)
El doctor Montague, un científico que investiga toda clase de manifestaciones sobrenaturales, alquila una lúgubre mansión encantada y reúne en ella a una serie de personajes peculiares que le servirán para sus indagaciones: una solterona tímida y nerviosa, una mujer cruel y egoísta, un hombre taimado e incrédulo... Sin embargo, ninguno imagina que, a la par de los extraños fenómenos de ultratumba que les acompañarán durante su estadía en la macabra Hill House, todos ellos se verán envueltos por sus propios fantasmas y obsesiones.
Cuatro personajes llegan a un viejo y laberíntico caserón conocido como Hill House. Son el doctor Montague, un estudioso de lo oculto que busca pruebas de fenómenos psíquicos en casas encantadas, y tres personas a quienes el doctor ha reclutado para llevar a cabo un experimento. Pronto todos deberán enfrentarse a situaciones que están más allá de su comprensión. Hill House parece estar preparándose para escoger a uno de ellos y hacerlo suyo para siempre.
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
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Journeys end in lovers meeting.
She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small guilts and small reproaches, constant weariness, and unending despair. Without ever wanting to become reserved and shy, she had spent so long alone, with no one to love, that it was difficult for her to talk, even casually, to another person without self-consciousness and an awkward inability to find words. (chapter 1)
The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once. (chapter 1)
When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.
We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it was leaning sideways. (Dr. Montague, chapter 4)
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Within, its walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
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