I love David Warner's voice....

I enjoy listening to each Haunting upload....at night before sleep is my very favorite time to relax and settle in to the soothing storytelling. Thank you for making my night enjoyable.

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

Very happy you're enjoying it. It's part of the novels genius that it combines the uncanny with a sense of comfort: Hill House is so ugly and yet so comfortable, and the whole danger of it is the danger that you are coming home, and that your belong there, forever.

@TheBlackDogChronicles

4 жыл бұрын

May I request that you come and listen to some of the spooky and mysterious stories on my channel. They are best listened to in the dark, when you are alone.

@PinkyPuff69

4 жыл бұрын

The Black Dog Chronicles Why, yes that would be nice.

The author, Shirley Jackson, wrote so many startling stories. This one--best!

@mariameere5807

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏 I was wondering who the genius who wrote this would be! Love this narrator....

Chapter three starts at 00:32:30

Mrs. Dudley speaks directly . . . To Hill House. Of course, to remind the house who she is...

@danconstanciojr8476

5 жыл бұрын

"NOTE : Did you know that EVIL always kills their favorites...first."

I took my boys to see the original movie many many years ago and to this day, both grown now state that was the scariest movies they have ever seen.

@stewieiommi

5 жыл бұрын

Jana Elliot, I was very young (now 65) when my mother read it and loved it. I couldn't resist reading it soon after; then began my life-long love of gothic horror. The book is always better than the movie, but the original is the one to see.

This story has fascinated me to no end since the age of 9

@stefanheintzelmann5744

3 жыл бұрын

Same to me, I was 9 years old and really scared, after watched the movie, with my 4 years older brother! ☝🏻👻 😱 🙏👹

I don't scare easily, but the movie made me scream. Loving the narrator. Can't wait to see if the book scares me too. I'm always searching for things that scare me. I guess that's my adrenalin addiction. I love facing my fears. No better way to beat them.

@toomanydrugsinmysys5414

5 жыл бұрын

what you don't know won't hurt you

@TheBlackDogChronicles

4 жыл бұрын

I would be very gratified if you would come and listen to the scary stories I have written and narrated on my channel. I hope they get the adrenaline flowing.

@janisyoung9682

2 жыл бұрын

This book is different than the movie, a lot more detailed. I guess they couldn't put it all in because of the time involved. I love the original movie though and the book.

I do the same thing, Melanie. Nothing else works. I do have a question. When Theo and Eleanor are walking back from the brook, Eleanor makes the comment that she doesn't think she'll be able to do it. I thought at first she meant walking back up the hill, but now I am wondering if she meant staying at Hill House altogether. Does anyone have an opinion? Seems like I find something that is new to me everytime I hear this.

@lynnmetzner4578

Жыл бұрын

In response to your query, I felt that Eleanor was speaking about staying at Hill House.

So Eleanor sensed evil & STILL stayed??! 😒 Mrs. Dudley was NOT playin'!

@scotnick59

3 жыл бұрын

She found a place for her particular "weirdness" I think

So awesome!

Enjoying this still only half way.

There seems to be some metallic background sound which is distracting. The reader is enjoyable to listen to: delivery, intonation and rhythm. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the upload 😀

32:23... Creepy music starts... 😱

37:00

@raphaeltheningaturtle3949

5 жыл бұрын

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26:36

1:56

Eeeeeeeew! I just googled 'Dimity' and 'Dimity curtains'. Every single image was of something cheap, ugly, and disgusting - reminiscent of all that nasty, deliberately drab, masochistic Midcentury decor. On one side, you have the sorts of fabrics that my family chooses : satin, velvet, tapestry, brocade, and organza. Essentially opposite that, you have the repulsive fabrics like Dimity: Dotted Swiss, and all the "nubby" fabrics we used to rip off windows and throw in the dumpsters, at 'trash-out-time', when my parents would buy old houses in the Hollywood Hills/Santa Monica Mountains, to live in, fix-up, and eventually sell. The Dimity, plus the mention of Eleanor searching for CIGARETTES, leads me to suspect that the Author's intent was to portray Eleanor AND the house, as being equally disgusting - deserving of each other.

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

You're right about the dimity: it's a thin, cheap fabric that makes chintz look fancy. The whole point is that Hill House is simultaneously very luxurious and weirdly cheap and nasty: the upper floor is barely planned as if the builders wanted to get done and away as quickly as possible, and the bedrooms are almost uninhabitable. But you're wrong about the smoking: the cigarettes are normal. Literally everybody smoked back then and they smoked indoors. There's absolutely no moral or health aspect to the smoking. Shirley Jackson herself had four kids that she brought up practically alone and she smoked two packs a day and drank like a fish.

@megaswenson

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for explaining Shirley Jackson's viewpoint. To her, a woman's smoking was not a sign of depravity and being doomed. In a way, I suppose, she was writing HERSELF into the book. Thanks for uploading this. We're all sitting here polishing silver while we listen. It's nice to have the entertainment.

@steerpike66

6 жыл бұрын

Any writer who's any good will write themselves into their books. Stephen King idolized Jackson and his books are filled with monstrous, brutal masculine, nightmare fathers, chasing their children with hammers. Jackson struggled with anxiety all her life, was constantly overweight, popped pills, and smoked and drank heavily. Her writing was a form of therapy as well as art but she still died of heart failure in her sleep at the very young age of 48. It's a pretty outstanding example of someone who can turn their personal issues into art. If she hadn't been so psychologically besieged, we wouldn't have her incomparable stories of fear and neurosis but I still wish she had lived a longer life.

@megaswenson

6 жыл бұрын

Is Stephen King a nightmare father, himself? Or did he HAVE a horrible father?

@steerpike66

5 жыл бұрын

He spent most of the 80's out of his face drunk and on coke; he doesn't remember writing whole books and was a nightmare to live with, plus he's a big hairy testosteronal dude, he must have been afraid he'd kill his kids and he's clearly afraid of the monster inside men.

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@einentiva

2 жыл бұрын

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