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I've been reading one classic book a month this year. This was my pick for September, has anyone else here read it? I've already looked at the first few pages and the first paragraph alone gave me chills.

I love the way the characters have been introduced and how it made the house itself the first before moving on to the list of people who will be its victims.

I love Eleanor already, this book is already really tense for me because I find her so relateable and while I've kept away from spoilers, I know this book wouldn't be as famously groundbreaking in the horror genre as it is if things were going to end well.


I've read House of Leaves too of course, but can anyone else recommend a good classic haunted house story? I'm really developing a liking for slow burn psychological horror.

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The Woman in Black by Susan Hill is my favorite classic haunted house story :) Stephen King's The Shining might also fall into this category (haunted hotel).

Remembered that I've had Hill House downloaded on my Kindle a long time already so I've started reading it too. I generally avoid horror these days but it's been on my radar a long time, and we're close enough to October.

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. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, 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.

The opening paragraph is indeed somewhat famous, even Stephen King has praised it, and it's easy to see the ways it influenced The Shining. (Apparently part of the opening is directly used in the Dark Tower books as well.)

Seems like a good book though, probably will add it to my list

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