Americanauthor Stories

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead. Public Domain in Canada

Saille (pronounced sail/sale) is just one person on Earth. Living a normal 20 year old life until a man on the streets notices her Sight. She's suddenly confronted by the stranger and he demands her knowabouts of it. She doesn't even know it exists, so why would she have anything to say about the new worlds she's just been given The Sight to? And why has her fiancé just spontaneously developed an ongoing paranoia around her?

Four seekers arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror Public domain in Canada.