1. Wuthering Heights By Emily Brontë
The Haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson

2. Wuthering Heights Background Published in 1847
Based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century
Style of literature featured:
Supernatural encounters
Crumbling ruins
Moonless nights
Grotesque imagery
Mystery
Fear

3. The Haunting of Hill House
Background
Published in 1959
Apart of the Penguin Horror series
Collection of novels, stories, and poems curated by Guillermo del Toro
Considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the twentieth century
Utilizes complex relationships between:
Mysterious events in the house
The characters’ psyches

4. The Haunting of Hill House
Main Characters
Wuthering Heights
The Haunting of Hill House
Mr. Lockwood
Mrs. Ellen Dean
Hindley Earnshaw
Catherine Earnshaw
Heathcliff
Edgar Linton
Isabella Linton
Eleanor Vance
Dr. Montague
Mrs. Montague
Luke Sanderson
Theodora
Arthur

5. Main Theme Supernatural manifestations Ghosts Wuthering Heights
Mr. Lockwood comes in contact with Catherine’s spirit
Heathcliff is driven mad by Catherine’s spirit every night eventually leading to his death
The Haunting of Hill House
Dr. Montague is a professional analysis of supernatural manifestations
Wants to study a “haunted” house – Hill House
Assembles a crew to go there based on their accounts of abnormal events
Eleanor hears voices in her head
Thinks Hill House is her home and she can’t leave
Mrs. Montague and Arthur use a planchette
Talk to spirits
Says its “Eleanor Nellie Nell Nell”

6. Themes Along With Semester
Biggest stand out
Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”
Also in the Penguin Horror series
Haunted by the loss of a loved one
Poe Lenore
Heathcliff Catherine
Voices inside one’s head
The narrator thinks there’s something at his chamber door
Eleanor thinks she hears her mother calling her
*Adaptations have been made to all three of these literary works*

7. Work Cited http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuthering/context.html