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Forgotten Favorites Book Club @ Half Moon Café: The Haunting of Hill House

Saturday, November 2 • 2pm

Every First Saturday of the Month at 2pm, we invite you to join us at Half Moon Rondout Café (83 Broadway in the Rondout) for coffee, donuts, and conversation.
For each date, we’ve chosen a title that is on the road to being left in weeds but one which we believe people should experience before it is forgotten. Together, we’ll revisit some of these books and decide if its time has come and gone, or if it’s destined for a word-of-mouth revival. Either way, we’ll all enjoy delicious baked goods and coffee, so there’s nothing to lose. 

🚨 November’s book has been changed to The Haunting of Hill House  by Shirley Jackson. 🚨

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, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House.

At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

This 1959 gothic horror was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been made into two feature films, a play, and a Netflix series.

See all selections and request them from the catalog here.