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The Monster She Wrote Podcast


Apr 14, 2026

Heads up, listeners. The ghosts of Hill House invaded this recording, so you might hear some audio glitches. 

 

In Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Eleanor Vance has just buried her ailing elderly mother when she is invited to be part of a psychic investigation at a notoriously haunted house. The plan is to rent the home out for the summer and see what evidence of ghosts they can collect. What could possibly go wrong? 

 

Recommended in this episode: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

 

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