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Following on from where Shirley Jacksons' timeless ghost story left off, discover the first ever authorised sequel to The Haunting of Hill House.
Sixty years after the terrible events at Hill House, history is set to repeat itself. When a group of actors set up a rehearsal retreat in an old abandoned property, they think they have found the perfect inspiration for THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. But they soon sense a hostile presence in the house. Then the horrors unfold. By the end of the summer, will any of them survive? For whatever walks in Hill House, walks alone . . .

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Following on from where Shirley Jacksons' timeless ghost story left off, discover the first ever authorised sequel to The Haunting of Hill House.

Sixty years after the terrible events at Hill House, history is set to repeat itself. When a group of actors set up a rehearsal retreat in an old abandoned property, they think they have found the perfect inspiration for THE WITCH OF EDMONTON. But they soon sense a hostile presence in the house. Then the horrors unfold. By the end of the summer, will any of them survive? For whatever walks in Hill House, walks alone . . .

Autorenporträt
Elizabeth Hand is the author of twenty-plus cross-genre novels and five collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards. She's a longtime critic and contributor of essays for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Boston Review, and the Village Voice, among many others. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London.
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Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as Jackson's original, A Haunting on the Hill is quite extraordinary. It's not pastiche, not ventriloquism. It puts me strongly in mind of a singer you love covering a song by another artist. It's that song but now it's being done by someone else. Remarkable. NEIL GAIMAN, author of AMERICAN GODS