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A ghostly essence, back to haunt us

any have tried to return to Hill House, the site of Shirley Jackson’s most chilling novel. In film and TV, directors and their set designers have attempted to conjure Hill House into existence, but the sentient house that shifts as residents move through it has for the most part evaded capture. So I was sceptical to learn that Elizabeth Hand was penning a return, with the blessing of the Shirley Jackson estate, in her latest novel

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