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Book Review: “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.  It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor,

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The Haunting of Hill House

Movie Review: “Mirage” on Netflix

“Mirage,” an original Netflix move, is surprisingly good. I say “surprisingly” because, well, here’s the description: A space-time continuum glitch allows Vera to save a boy’s life 25 years earlier, but results in the loss of her daughter, whom she fights to get back. So, first, it’s got a time-travel element to it, which always

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Mirage