Ep 204 - The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
Overdue
Headgum
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as "the greatest haunted-house story ever written." The house itself is vile. It's dark and impossible to navigate. It's dripping with blood. So why are four people trying to spend their summer there?!?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
| 0:10.3 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
| 0:16.5 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, all I can hear is you making mouth noises and it's driving me crazy and I lose. |
| 0:46.6 | Okay, I blank. |
| 0:47.7 | I blinked. |
| 0:48.7 | I lose. |
| 0:49.7 | I feel like we were doing an improv exercise where we were both supposed to start saying |
| 0:55.6 | the same words at the same time. |
| 0:57.8 | Except you weren't looking at me so I was making mouth noises at you in the hopes that |
| 1:03.8 | our mouths would line up. |
| 1:06.0 | I felt like we were doing an improv exercise where we were supposed to yes and each other, |
| 1:09.9 | but neither of us would say anything to yes and. |
| 1:14.7 | Those are the worst improv shows. |
| 1:16.4 | I hate it when I go and see improv shows where a bunch of people just stand there silently. |
| 1:21.1 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:22.1 | John Cage does improv. |
| 1:23.7 | Get it? |
| 1:26.6 | I'm not going to overdo this. |
| 1:27.6 | This is a podcast about the books that you've been meeting to read. |
| 1:30.0 | My name is Craig. |
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