What if they was having a dream, a bad one, a positively screaming mimi?

Yes, Dettlings, I opened this episode with my impression of that very random flapper ghost in the Netflix series The haunting of Hill House.

But speaking of dreams, are the mortuary and funeral scenes in the show a bad dream,

a positively screaming me? Or are they a beautiful reality? Let's find out.

Welcome to Death in the afternoon,

a podcast about all things mortal from the Order of the Good Death.

Today, I, Caitlin, hi, hello, am flying solo to bring you a short episode on the death and funeral scenes in the

haunting of Hill House. Fair warning, this episode is not spoiler free. You

requested a mortician's review of the haunting of Hill House, and we're doing it as something of a thank you to everyone who has listened to the show, rated and reviewed the show, binged the show, shared the show to all your morbid friends, you

are appreciated.

Let's start with a brief history.

The Hunting of Hill House began as a Gothic horror novel written in 1959 by

Shirley Jackson. Jackson is a writer that is having something of a Renaissance right now, All the young ladies of a macabre

disposition that I know love Shirley Jackson. And this year that book was loosely

adapted into a Netflix series,

complete with mortuary scenes and a mortician character.

At first, even with the mortician character,

I wasn't sure that I wanted to watch this show,

because I do not like crap jumping out at me. Unpopular opinion, I don't even like horror that much. I don't like jump scares. Sorry about it. The mortician

character in question is Shirley Crane. Everyone calls her Shurl, which is sort of confusing because that name doesn't really roll off the tongue,

but that's what everyone calls her, so it's like, where's Shurle?

Damn it, Shurle.

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