The hidden ghosts of Hill House aren’t nameless spooks trapped between spiritual realms they are personal manifestations for the people they haunt, visual aids for the truths they must accept and vanquish.
Creator and director Mike Flanagan crafts a wholly unique haunted-house fable - abandoning the book’s paranormal investigation plot - using the hollow halls of a disordered mansion to tell the story of the disordered family who lives there. Netflix’s new ten-episode horror series, The Haunting of Hill House, uses Shirley Jackson’s famous novel as a road map to explore this house-as-body metaphor, and it does so with a profound and precise tenderness.
You climb the stairs and shout through the windows, hungry for a way out, lost in the labyrinthine sinew of personal devastation. Soon, you’re trapped in a house of its making: long hallways leading nowhere, empty rooms, doors that swing open and slam shut by the weather of your moods. Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back.Spoilers below for Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and its ending. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. You don’t even have to have had read the book. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event.
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