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Too many concussions. I will never ride a bicycle again.

Thank you for sharing your experience

Gosh Shelly.. I didn't realize so many of these details..

Great to have you blogging Shelly, very interesting and fascinating story and history...

Shelly Rocks !!! :)

lovely work, MF X

Love your dry humour Mike! 👍

Cool. Entertaining

Thank you for sharing your deep insights and life experience. It is eye opening to people who have not heard of the disease and also helpful to those who have.

Nooooo scooter😅

Nice to put voice to you! Shared it Mic😊hael

Nice to put voice to you! Shared it Mic😊hael

Nice to put voice to you! Shared it Mic😊hael

Great video!

Once again Netflix ruins what is a classic and excellent psychological thriller. Do yourself a favor and watch the original 1963 movie instead, it is brilliant.

As an outcast child her heroines were so dear to my heart.

Hi Mike.. just discovered your channel.. most interesting and entertaining.. 😃👍

Great attempt at making the external landscape unravel the internal landscape.

Why was it never explained in the book what Theo saw when she looked back on the path?

Sagehauntinghillhouse

I already know the story. That's not why I clicked on this!

Even though The Haunting of Hill House is a ghost story, I also see it as a psychological thriller. I think anyone going through what Eleanor goes through in that book (and 1969 film) would end up with some sort of psychosis. She already was psychologically vulnerable when she came to Hill House. She never fit in with others, and her family did not fit in with others. She was used to being used by others, and not considered nor respected by them. She then arrives at Hill House with her magical thinking ("journeys end in lovers meeting" -- even though that is from a play by Shakespeare and is part of a song from that play). The newest version of The Haunting is mostly just cheap thrills. I didn't enjoy it at all. My favorite line from the book is "A cup of stars." In that one line, there's brilliance.

Her book is the most boring read you'll ever sit through

Excellent analysis! I found Hill House a really tough book to read. I unfortunately watched the Netflix series first which coloured my expectations. The book is fantastic but you have to go in without expectations. Awesome that you picked up on the connection between Carrie by Stephen King and Eleanor's backstory! I totally missed that! There are lots of similarities between the Overlook Hotel from The Shining and Hill House as well. Jackson influenced King a great deal I think.

there's an interesting story told by Robert Wise, the director of 1963's The Haunting. jackson didn't write the screenplay. (it was written by a guy named nelson gidding.) well into the filming Wise became confused over the story line and called jackson to clear it up. he asked her if Eleanor wasn't having a mental breakdown and imagining all the things she was experiencing. jackson's reply was - no, its a real haunting. but what you suggested is an interesting idea. the haunting, the book and the 1963 film, are NOT psychological thrillers. they're horror in the strictest and purest sense. its about ghosts not psychosis.

What's a cog-itation? 😆

The original movie with Julie Harris is a masterpiece. Much more authentically terrifying.

I read the book after seeing the '63 movie, not knowing it was based on the book. Both are fantastic. Then saw the Netflix one, not knowing it was Loosely based on the book. That was my least fave. I even liked Bly Manor better having saw that one first. If taken on their own, each is good. I have a comparison video on my channel.

Nice review! Honestly the book is more Teresa driven than it is Theres’ story. Theres’ story is that of a person who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong and her actions are simply driven out of mistrust for the “big” people thanks to her sheltered upbringing. Also, it’s questionable whether Theres’ does it out of malice or not. Yes, she has a deep seething mistrust of the “big” people but at the same time she didn’t kill Lennart and Leila for that. She’s actually breaking into peoples heads to find the qualities they supposedly have in their heads. You can see it in the sense that she destroys the CD player looking for the music inside. Same thing with Lennart and Leila. She cracks their heads open to find the “love” inside. Theres’ actions to her are not out of malice but either out of defence or curiosity. Or at least that is what I perceived. She has no concept of right and wrong. The only concept of the outside world she really her is "they are big and they want to eat me." But Teresa’s story is the twisted heart of this novel. It’s the story of a psychopath breaking out of her cocoon and accepting her true nature no matter how deranged that true nature is. I can’t say I like Teresa come the end. But I was entirely wrapped up in her story and her drifting moral decline. It was fascinating to me. On first read, I thought it was that Theres was of the other world and was hypnotizing these girls with her voice. But on second read I came to realize that's not the case at all. She has a wonderful voice that speaks volumes, but it is the words of Teresa filtered through the voice of Theres that draws in this group of lost girls. At the end of the day, it's just as much Teresa as Theres that brings out the worst in these girls. They all become hopelessly devoted to their idol as she helps to mentor the worst out of them. Theres knows no right or wrong, but the other girls do. The truth is they are what they are and she brings out the worst in them as they look to her for the guidance that they aren't seeking elsewhere in their lives. Like a darker version of Eli and Oskar from LTROI. Where Eli’s blood lust is driven by need to survive. Theres and Teresa’s actions are just senseless to everyone else bar them. Theres has nothing but distrust for the big people and is almost rallying the little people to bite back. And that's a dangerous thought to stew on for those who are lost at a delicate period of their life It’s the singer and song writer dynamic that actually made this quite interesting to me and how the song "Fly" speaks to all these lost young girls and brings out the worst in them as they find solace and comfort in the arms of their idol and her song writer. But I like this novel. It’s a compelling dark and twisted love story of two very dangerous people and what happens when they meet. Also, it’s an interesting satire on the Idol phenomenon itself and what happens when a few lost and aimless girls invest into one dangerously minded idol ;)

I loved the book so much! And i watched the Netflix version only to find it dissapointing. I mean it is good and scary, but the book is soo great and phycological rather than just ghost story

Re-The Haunting of Hill House… Wonderful, intriguing book. Many believe it to be a ghost story, but it is not. It is rather a story about a young woman losing her mind. Many would disagree, particularly as the 1963 film version is indeed an iconic ghost story. The main clue however is to be found in the bit about the house being built a degree or two out of square and that everything is a question of balance. Not forgetting of course the opening quote… 'No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.' Highly recommended.

I have been fascinated with "The Haunting of Hill House" since the age of 9 (1969)

Brilliant. This was really good. When I was married, we had a house on the edge of a creek, moved in at the end of winter around February, this of course being the Northern Hemisphere. All was well during the spring, summer and first of fall, and then as if a portal opened, we started finding rats and hearing rats everywhere, at first it was only a scratch here and a phantom shadow there. But after placing some glue traps we started catching them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 in the first few days, and a few days later, I would clear a room with a flashlight and secure the area with a line of glue traps across the door, so we could sleep somewhat well enough, in the morning the glue traps would show 5 or 6 rats that tried to get into the room stuck and squirming, this went on for weeks, I cleared room after room with lines of glue traps until I secured the house, and finally found their entrance, it was in the basement a crack on the foundation a hole to the outside half a inch wide and two foot long. I concreted this up within hours, and finally no more rats. In totally that month in a half we ended up killing well over 48 rats. I even set one on fire as it hid in my stove hiding, knowing I was coming for it, so I turned on all the burners and the oven on high and cooked it, the screams I wont forget, and my then wife, made me buy a new one the next day, this time a glass top so the buggy fuckers, cant pop out between the coils while you cook. haha. Sorry for the rant, but, I as well share in such horrors that I will take to my grave and so relate fully.

Are you going to upload more videos soon? These are good, id love more on Ligotti. He of course is one of my all time favorites.

I find Songs and Grimscribe to be vastly superior to Teatro

I love the attention to detail in both your reviews and the presentation I also love your decision to stick with the outsider strange bizarre types of fiction, absolutely my favorite type of writing. PLS continue I look forward to the next one

Foliage that grows until it stifles itself - what a suitable background image when talking about prose that is so dense and wordy that a reader needs to 'machete' his way through to stay focused.

Great music. Dense prose but different than Lovecraft. Not buried in adjectives. Some of the writing reads as if it were a translation from an Eastern European writer, for example, Bruno Schultz

excellent review my friend, you have the voice for this sort of thing and the understanding, i wish you would review/give your thoughts and whatnot on individual ligotti short stories, but do as you may, i'll be tuning in

You could be a narrator!