Warehouse 13 Artifact Database Wiki:The Haunting of Hill House

Plot
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is a novel about the complex relationships between the events in the title house and the character's involved psyches. Hill House is an eighty-year-old mansion in a location that is never specified, built by long-deceased Hugh Crain. The four main characters are: Dr. John Montague, a supernatural investigator; Eleanor Vance, a shy young woman who resents having lived as a recluse; Theodora, a flamboyant artist and Luke Sanderson, the heir to Hill House. Montague invites Theodora and Eleanor to the house to see if the paranormal events are true. There they meet Luke who rents the Hill House to Montague for the summer. Over their time there they experience several hauntings and in they end discover that the house is attempting to possess Eleanor. While the others try to convince her to leave she refuses and commits suicide by driving her car into a tree, presumably to become a ghost to the house