Since first discovering this a few years ago, I still listen to it at night in bed, sometimes. It’s my go-to comforting bedtime story. I never grow tired of it. David Warner is the best. He uses his acting skills to tell the story of Hill House and more importantly, the story of Eleanor...so well.

@janisyoung9682

2 жыл бұрын

It is also my go to bed story. I listen every night, but only to this one. I agree it is the best one anywhere.

@Welther47

Жыл бұрын

That was a weird use of "... so well". anyways. I agree with you. Though I think Dracula is my go-to comfort bedtime story.

All of Shirley Jackson's works are compelling, creative, probing and psychologically rich. "The Lottery" is another story that will send chills up and down your spine!

@kazwhymark3165

4 жыл бұрын

Dr. Greg Grove hey Doc can you come give me a bedside check up plz lol 😂

@rrwright

3 жыл бұрын

I think another good book of hers is We have always lived in the castle which i think is a very good book and i think you should check it out.

@dr.greggrove4413

3 жыл бұрын

@@kazwhymark3165 Really? Probably best to connect with someone your own age, no? My pic was taken in 1986. :)

@dr.greggrove4413

3 жыл бұрын

Hey there...reminds me of the line "We are all pawns" in the BBC series "The Prisoner."

@dr.greggrove4413

3 жыл бұрын

@Raymond Duncan Reminds me of that great line in the BBC TV series The Prisoner, "We are all pawns, my dear."

I have always struggled with reading and writing. Whenever I read a book I needlessly stumble over the lines and repeating it in my head over and over again never makes sense. Audio books are the perfect solution to my problem giving me the enjoyment like coming up with a story in your head, its perfectly read. Thank you Hornytoad you are truly a blessing.

@steerpike66

Жыл бұрын

That's wonderful! I find Audible a little flat and functional sometimes, and I really value when I find a reader who can bring a book to vivid life whether it be through acting the characters or just a single compelling voice. David does a bit of both, his authorial voice is strong and elegant, and his reading of the women characters is finely sensitive. He is an excellent Eleanor.

@williamorpheus2635

Жыл бұрын

lmao same. for me reading while listening to the audiobook really helps me imagining the book better

@louwinters508

10 ай бұрын

Do you have ADHD.

I'd like to quickly thank you for posting this in a quality that's actually usable. Most of the others on KZread are so static ridden that trying to listen to them with headphones on is asking for pains and headaches. Thanks for this.

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

The poor quality of the others is exactly why I uploaded this one.

@maxdillon8875

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the last one I tried listening to sounded like the guy didn't even want to read it and was just narrating as fast as he could

@mariameere5807

2 жыл бұрын

@@steerpike66 thank you so much 😊

This book made my life. It is stupendous and enthralling, the narrator is a life saver.

“People leave this town, they don’t come here” Truly a ominous quote from such a quiet person 38:21

I'm so pleased to find a good quality version of this. Thank you for uploading it!

I truly like the intro soundtrack taken from the 99's The Haunting. A nice touch

‘Insist on your cup of stars’ wonderful little exchange // 00:30:00

Being a Eleanor , this classic book 📚, film has always resonated with me for so many reasons

@OctoberWraith-gg4pe

9 ай бұрын

👋🌬️🌹😉

David Warner is the perfect narrator for this classic. With a career in motion pictures that spans over 50-years, David Warner is one of those extraordinary talents that everyone knows on sight, and yet struggles to recall by name, even though he's been there the entire time turning out exemplary performances--one of my favorites.

@steerpike66

7 жыл бұрын

I know: I assumed they'd get a woman (Claire Bloom probably) to read it but he does such a good job with Eleanor's internal thoughts and her relationship with Theo that it's impossible to fault him. His gift for comedy comes in when Mrs Markway and Arthur arrive later.

@kaliforniemadchen

6 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@robynn144

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. David Warner is a perfect narrator for this story, and yes an actor everyone knows by sight. Fewer by name.

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

He's played a few races on Star Trek, not to mention his memorable comic turn as Evil in Terry Gillam's cult classic 'Time Bandits' and the ill-fated photographer in 'The Omen' but he hasn't done a great deal lately. People might remember him as Billy Zane's enforcer in 'Titanic'.

@GoldTopSlinger

6 жыл бұрын

I was surprised it wasn't a woman reading this, too, since Eleanore's inner thoughts narrate the book. But when I realized it was David Warner I was sold. Warner's voice is perfect for this.

The narrator plays it cool and reserved--David Warner never loses his head.

@steerpike66

3 жыл бұрын

I like how he turns up the loud, harsh, dry aspects of his voice for the stupid Mrs Montague and her idiot friend Arthur.

There’s now a movie called “Shirley” about the author. It won a Cannes Film Festival Award, I believe. The actress in the role of the author, is Elizabeth Moss from “A Handmaid’s Tale.” I saw the trailor for it and it looks good and very dark!

@steerpike66

4 жыл бұрын

That's sounds great! Moss is a wonderful performer and Jackson herself led a very haunted life.

@steerpike66

4 жыл бұрын

Her Invisible Man movie was really very good, mostly because Moss holds the screen for pretty much every second of the running length and it had a clever subtext of misogynistic emotional abuse.

David Warner's voice reminds me greatly of Jeremy Irons. Thank you for the upload.

Extremely well-done: one of my favorite novels of all=time

i had to listen to an audio book for english class but i actually am quite happy i chose this one.

Hallelujah. I am glad to find an upload of Warner's reading with good sound quality. In the first upload I came across the sound distortion was insufferable.

"It's HALF my car," Eleanor said. (Good character dialogue since Eleanor extremely introverted personality). That's all she can say.

They ruined this story in the Netflix series, it bears NO resemblance to the original tale in any way. The entire metaphysical premise of the tale is changed, from the idea of a 'leprous' or 'deranged house' that was 'born bad', to a maudlin metaphor for familial trauma and recovery. I don't know why they scavenged Jackson's work for names just to dump everything else.

@janisyoung9682

2 жыл бұрын

I watched about 15 min of the Netflix show and didn't like it at all. I only like the book, the audiobook and the 1959 movie.

@geminijustgemini7784

Жыл бұрын

I watched the Netflix show first. So I was hoping to read (hear) about the Hill family they speak of in that show here. But in that show people who die remain in the house so there could be many stories about former residents. Stories about other visitors using the house as a background. Seems like a cash grab.

@drakashrakenburgproduction5369

Жыл бұрын

Ah keep crying

@internetpolification

Жыл бұрын

@@drakashrakenburgproduction5369 silly comment

@louwinters508

10 ай бұрын

I loved it. It bared no resemblance but I still like it on it's own. It wasn't the same story so I don't see how they ruined it. Lol😅

Wow just found this.My favourite book.Thanks for uploading

This has old charm , loved it , thankyou 🌸

Great book! Great show! Loved both.

I am so happy to have this to listen to before bed, now! Thank you, an excellent upload.

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you're enjoying it :)

@paulrowett5830

6 жыл бұрын

Melanie Brandt I agree.

@tararaynal3571

5 жыл бұрын

You wish for a nightmare? Lol

thanks for posting this im taking notes on it for a school project I appreciate it

HEAVENLY !! Thank You So Much : )

I have found that there aren't people who like this book nor do they understand the fact that you must allow yourself to be put under Jackson's unique "spell" (the only word I could think of")

@steerpike66

3 жыл бұрын

Spell is entirely the right word. In recent years, I have seen several productions that have to do with dark magic: it's wickedness doesn't distract. The magical spell cast by films such as Mr Eggers VViitch or Mr Aster's Hereditary may seem dark, and terrifying, and evil, but the spell itself, cast with skill and determination by a great artist. is not resistible. The horror is of submission to great danger but therein lies its weird comfort. I adore such work.

@janisyoung9682

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree

Thank you! Most excellent!

Excellent; wonderful; perfect. Need anything more be added to this great horror story and the voice adds to the chilling feeling while listening at night?

David Warner narrator, what a Treat. He was so talented, I enjoyed his talents for many years.

Thank you! ✌️❤️from 🇨🇦

It was the stoning of the neighborhood Eleanor lived as child that reminded me of Rose Red tv mini series/DVD, rest of book more hill house.

Thank you sooooo much.

I remember this saw the black and white movie and the up to date love them both 💖☕😄👍

@niccolehoody7317

3 жыл бұрын

@Raymond Duncan yeah it was good

The 1963 movie The Haunting is scary movie. Watch this movie with No Interruptions , No Interruptions means No Interruptions of any type or kind. If you do this you will be involved in the movie and you will be afraid , you will be impressed with the movie.

@JustTrying87

11 ай бұрын

I remember watching it on my parents' bed many years ago in bright daylight.. I was terrified!!

Magical voice 😍. ..

I wasn't planning to listen to this, but the music and the voice captured me.

Excellently read and a more gripping and in depth story which is more true to the original book than the legendary Vincent Price film ( though that classic film was also great in its own way and for that time). A great story told so well as here, builds authenticity and the picture of real people in our minds, that we can see through their eyes and feel the fear with them, be so very frightened and nervous with them about......about what might................might come next!

@rimfire2010

5 жыл бұрын

hi, the Vincent Price movie was 'House on Haunted Hill' 1959. this movie is from 1963 with Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, and a few others called 'The Haunting'.

@janisyoung9682

2 жыл бұрын

This version is word for word the book. One of the reasons I love it so much.

Wow. The opening it the ending to the show, right?

I got bamboozled. Thought this was an actual part 1 of the movie.🤨😖

thank-you

Thank you..

I can’t really get over this book. I identify a lot with Nell, it’s somewhat comforting knowing someone has similar thoughts to me. I’m not alone in that, in my awkwardness and self conscious thoughts. Disturbing that I might end up like her though, maybe I can keep it together.

@steerpike66

Жыл бұрын

She thinks a lot of things that were unacceptable for a woman at the time and difficult even today. She is traumatized, lonely, capable of sudden hatred and huge rage. She is a real person. Her sudden boredom and irritation with Luke's oblivious masculine vanity is something every woman can identify so strongly with at all times everywhere.

Interesting, the story sounds verbatim to Rose Red not ' the Haunting of Hil House' as title indicates. I've seen both movies numerous times and read on both a lot. Still a good listen and yes is my fav narrator.

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

Sandra Smith Stephen King has indicated his debt to Shirley Jackson many times. He dedicated 'The Shining' to her. 'Rose Red' is an imitation of Hill House.

@GoldTopSlinger

6 жыл бұрын

And now that I know that, I shall be reading Red Rose. Thanks for the heads up.

@thelaurelbush

5 жыл бұрын

Shirley Jackson is from San Francisco. It seems she had some knowledge of Ed Rambo's Theosophist work and grew up by the Winchester estate. It became open source now and I have some commentary on Instagram.

Is every video a chapter?

@steerpike66

Жыл бұрын

There are no distinct chapters in the book but the story is edited into coherent stages.

Is there a Part 2 ?

@steerpike66

Жыл бұрын

Sure. It's all listed on the right hand side of the screen and if not, go to my channel and you'll find them in order.

💀 In the night, in the dark ...

Post full movie of this thanks

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

Movie? The whole eight-part reading is available on my channel if that is what you mean.

@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate

6 жыл бұрын

+Chazbot yes a movie was made of this long time ago. good movie hard to find though. it was about a man who trapped his soul in his house some how, i forgot the whole plotline.

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

There's a great old 1963 picture called 'The Haunting' by Robert Wise with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom that is a classic chiller, and there's a SHITTY remake by Jan De Bont that wastes Lili Taylor and Catherine Zeta Jones. The former is a masterclass in understated psychological horror; the remake is a disgusting mess of bad CGI, Tim Burton production design, and overacting. Watch the 1963 film here: m4ufree.tv/watch-o89t-the-haunting-1963-movie-online-free-m4ufree.html Do not watch the 1999 piece of shit.

@traceymcintyre6265

6 жыл бұрын

Jeff McDuffie I think you might be talking about the movie The Legend of Hell House: www.dailymotion.com/video/xw26ri

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

That's mostly campy 70's fun and it's based on a more lurid novel by Richard Matheson.

I thought this was the old movie 😧

Nice

wonderful but a little speedy for a creepy work, I wanted the narrator to feel the creeping fear ?

Scariest movie I’ve ever seen.

Kept waiting for Mr. Warned to drop in a "....detective" in there somewhere.

The narrator sounds slightly like voice actor Ralph Bell using a pseudonym (from the CBS radio mystery theatre program.)

@steerpike66

3 жыл бұрын

David Warner is something of a film legend of the 70s and 80s. Hes probably most famous for The Omen with Gregory Peck, as well as Time Bandits, Titanic, The Company of Wolves, Tron, Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron, Scream 2, Tom Jones, and Holocaust.

I just thought of something. Hill House HAD to be haunted; otherwise why would the Dudleys make sure they were gone before dark? Also, no one else would work there. So, although it probably did affect Nell's mind, it had to have been caused by something already there.

@steerpike66

2 жыл бұрын

Nell is a latent medium. The power in the house sleeps until people like her enter it, and her problems shape the haunting. This is why the spiritually deaf Mrs Montague sees and hears nothing. Shirley herself most definitely believed in evil, and ghosts, and the power of a place,

She wants her cup of stahs

"The Haunting of Hill House Part 1" , a video by HornyToad

Lol at 1:53 "an honestly haunted house" 🤣 Imagine naming a movie that. Instead of Paranormal Activity or Nightmare Mansion, just call it "An Honestly Haunted House".😇

My new Ford Mustang Convertible dark Gray and two to go back to Cuitzeo

Why does this have so many dislikes?

@steerpike66

2 жыл бұрын

It's KZread. 80% of the people on here are adults crying themselves to sleep alone in beds shaped like Ferraris.

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I'm enjoying this so far, but I'll be honest, it's a little odd to me that an English narrator was chosen for a book with an American setting written by an American author. If it were the other way around, an American narrating an English novel, I think people would criticize.

@steerpike66

4 жыл бұрын

Does it annoy you when English and Australian actors are cast in roles as classically American as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Batman? Because all those roles have been filled by English actors recently. Even in the classic 1963 film, Theo and Markway/Montague were both Brits and Hill House was an English location.

@SprightlyValentino

4 жыл бұрын

@@steerpike66 it doesn't bother me if the actor is capable of speaking in a convincing American accent.

@steerpike66

4 жыл бұрын

@@SprightlyValentino Yeah but Dr Markway doesn't and neither does Theo. They're both clearly English. he because he an academic, and Theo because she's posh.

@steerpike66

4 жыл бұрын

@@SprightlyValentino And these characters are never described as specifically American. Nor is any place-name mentioned. Jackson only suggests places, cities, towns.

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too fast for me

@loiswells3062

4 ай бұрын

You can slow down the narration in the settings. Just pick 75% of normal speed.

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29:54

39:26

Nice story. Not a show.

thnking bout how gay eleanor is. god bless!

11:10