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231 pages, Paperback
First published October 16, 1959
鈥�No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.鈥�
This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope.What a wonderful repetition of 鈥渇or鈥� in the last sentence! (Instead, I probably would have written 鈥渘ot a fit place for people, love, or hope.鈥� And I would have been wrong.)
鈥淣o live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.鈥�