“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.”

— Shirley Jackson, book The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Ch. 2

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novelist, short story writer 1916–1965

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