Contains a collection of twenty-six stories about the supernatural by American authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and H. P. Lovecraft; and includes brief biographical profiles on each author.
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves after the creature is rejected by society.
Four people arrive at Hill House to unravel its secrets. Dr. Montague is an occult scholar; Theodora is his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke is the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor is a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. Once there they have to cope with chilling, horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding. What they don't know is that Hill House is gathering its powers--and soon will choose one of them to make its own.
