It is not long ago that I have joined the meme The Friday Face-Off, which was originally created by Books by Proxy. Each week bloggers showcase books with covers centred around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!
This week’s theme: “Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.” – A cover with abandoned buildings
I have thought a lot if one of my favourite books -Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House- qualified for this theme. I mean, the building is not permanently inhabited, right? However, it is not abandoned either (a malignant presence dwells there). It fits well the rest, though: death had definitively his day, and then some. So here it is, in all its majesty across many countries and editions, with only one exception: the French cover, which I would have otherwise included (it was the first version I read, after all), does not, strangely enough, feature a house, abandoned or otherwise, but just a (spooky) candelabra. Out.
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