Status Updates From The Haunting of Hill House

As Eleanor drives to Hill House and imagines herself living in all of these different homes and what she would do there, I can absolutely relate. I do this myself-imagining different lives.

Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again.”(Chapter 1 - Page 15)

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed the first paragraph of the novel, the narrator states that absolute reality is not a tenable state for any sane being and that Hill House is “not sane” (1), suggesting that Hill House represents, somehow, “absolute reality.”

I wonder if Stephen King got the idea of the rocks coming into the house and windows from this book. Very similar to Carrie.