The Haunting of Hill House

書評
「我讀過最恐怖的書……那天晚上，我在熟睡的妻子身旁閱讀，卻發現自己無法移動，無法上床，無法做任何事，只能繼續閱讀，並祈禱身邊的陰影不會動。」
—— 卡門·瑪莉亞·馬查多，《紐約時報》

「鬼屋小說的經典之作，其他作品都只能站在它的陰影之下。」
—— 保羅·特倫布雷，《滿腦鬼故事》的作者

「雪莉·傑克森的《鬼魅山房》超越一切：一座邪惡的房子，真實的人類主角，一切都是半遮半掩或在黑暗中發生。這本書在我青少年時代讓我感到恐懼，現在依然讓我不寒而慄，艾莉諾——那個前來居住的女孩——更是久久縈繞心頭。」
—— 尼爾·蓋曼，《紐約時報》

「《鬼魅山房》重新改寫了恐怖文學的規則。」
—— 艾莉森·弗洛德，《衛報》

Review
The scariest book I’ve ever read ... I read it one night next to my sleeping wife and found myself unable to move, unable to go to bed, unable to do anything except keep reading and praying the shadows around me didn’t move -- Carmen Maria Machado ― The New York Times

the haunted house novel. All others stand in its shadow -- Paul Tremblay ― author of A Head Full of Ghosts

Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” beats them all: a maleficent house, real human protagonists, everything half-seen or happening in the dark. It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still, as does Eleanor, the girl who comes to stay -- Neil Gaiman ― The New York Times

The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror’s rules -- Alison Flood ― Guardian

雪莉·傑克森（Shirley Jackson）
雪莉·傑克森於 1916 年出生於舊金山。1948 年，她因短篇小說《樂透》（The Lottery）而獲得廣泛的評論讚譽。她的小說，包括《日晷》（The Sundial）、《鳥巢》（The Bird’s Nest）、《懸掛的人》（Hangsaman）、《穿牆之路》（The Road through the Wall）、《我們一直住在城堡裡》（We Have Always Lived in the Castle）以及《鬼魅山房》（The Haunting of Hill House），其特色在於她使用現實主義的場景來展開經常涉及恐怖和靈異元素的故事。

她的非小說作品包括《養育惡魔》（Raising Demons）和《野蠻人之間的生活》（Life Among the Savages）。《與我同行》（Come Along With Me）則是一本故事、演講以及她未完成小說的合集，於 1965 年她去世時仍在創作中。所有這些作品目前均由企鵝出版社（Penguin）在版。

她的兩本文學遺作短篇小說集《普通的一天》（Just An Ordinary Day，班坦出版）和《讓我告訴你》（Let Me Tell You，隨筆出版社）已出版發行。此外，2016 年，她的孫子邁爾斯·海曼（Miles Hyman）改編了《樂透》的圖像小說，由 Farrar-Straus-Giroux 出版。同樣在 2016 年出版的還包括《黑暗故事》（Dark Tales，企鵝經典）和露絲·富蘭克林（Ruth Franklin）撰寫的授權傳記《雪莉·傑克森：一個幽暗的生命》（Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life，諾頓出版社）。

Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story "The Lottery," which was published in 1948. Her novels--which include The Sundial, The Bird's Nest, Hangsaman, The Road through the Wall, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House--are characterized by her use of realistic settings for tales that often involve elements of horror and the occult. Raising Demons and Life Among the Savages are her two works of nonfiction. Come Along With Me is a collection of stories, lectures, and part of the novel she was working on when she died in 1965. All are currently in print (Penguin). Two posthumous volumes of her short fiction are Just An Ordinary Day (Bantam) and Let Me Tell You (Random House). A graphic novel adaptation of "The Lottery" by Miles Hyman, her grandson, was published in 2016 (Farrar-Straus-Giroux). Also in 2016: Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (Penguin Classics) and an authorized biography by Ruth Franklin: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Norton).