Ghosts Were People Too

13 - The Haunting of Hill House (Prt. 1): AND They Were Roommates


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For our very special 13th episode, we present part one of a two-part series on the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and its film adaptation The Haunting (1963). In part 1, we talk about the movie vs. the book, approaches to paranormal research, the Cult of True Womanhood, monstrous family systems, and Lesbians!

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Bibliography

“Walking Alone Together: Family Monsters in The Haunting of Hill House” by Richard Pascal

Interview: Laurence Jackson Hyman on his mother Shirley: ‘Her work is so relevant now…’ by Rachel Cooke. The Guardian.

“Opening Up” in Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol Clover

The Haunting of Hill House, Introduction by Laura Miller

“Walking Alone Together: Family Monsters in The Haunting of Hill House” by Richard Pascal in Studies in the Novel

Queer for Fear, Episode 4

Welter, Barbara. “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860.” American Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 2, 1966, pp. 151–74. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2711179. Accessed 31 Aug. 2024.

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Ghosts Were People TooBy Annabelle Bonebrake and Quest Zeidler