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Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.  \nDr. John Montague was a doctor of philosophy; he had taken his degree in anthropology, feeling obscurely that in this field he might come closest to his true vocation, the analysis of supernatural manifestations. He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability, even scholarly authority, from his education. It had cost him a good deal, in money and pride, since he was not a begging man, to rent Hill House for three months, but he expected absolutely to be compensated for his pains by the sensation following upon the publication of his definitive work on the causes and effects of psychic disturbances in a house commonly known as\"haunted.\" He had been looking for an honestly haunted house all his life. When he heard of Hill House he had been at first doubtful, then hopeful, then indefatigable; he was not the man to let go of Hill House once he had found it.  \nDr. Montague's intentions with regard to Hill House derived from the methods of the intrepid nineteenth-century ghost hunters; he was going togo and live in Hill House and see what happened there. It was his intention, at first, to follow the example of the anonymous Lady who went to stay at Ballechin House and ran a summer-long house party for skeptics and believers, with croquet and ghost-watching as the outstanding attractions, but skeptics, believers, and good croquet players are harder to come by today;  \nDr. Montague was forced to engage assistants. Perhaps the leisurely ways of Victorian life lent themselves more agreeably to the devices of psychic investigation, or perhaps the painstaking documentation of phenomena has largely gone out as a means of determining actuality; at any rate, Dr. Montague had not only to engage assistants but to search for them.  \nBecause he thought of himself as careful and conscientious, he spent considerable time looking for his assistants. He combed the records of the psychic societies, the back files of sensational newspapers, the reports of parapsychologists, and assembled a list of names of people who had, in oneway or another, at one time or another, no matter how briefly or dubiously, been involved in abnormal events. From his list he first eliminated the names of people who were dead. When he had then crossed off the names of those who seemed to him publicity-seekers, of subnormal Intelligence, or unsuitable because of a clear tendency to take the center of the stage, he hada list of perhaps a dozen names. Each of these people, then, received a letter from Dr. Montague extending an invitation to spend all or part of a summer at a comfortable country house, old, but perfectly equipped with plumbing, electricity, central heating, and clean mattresses. The purpose of their stay, the letters stated clearly, was to observe and explore the various unsavory stories which had been circulated about the house for most of its eighty years of existence. Dr. Montague's letters did not say openly that Hill House was haunted, because Dr. Montague was a man of science and until he had actually experienced a psychic manifestation in Hill House he would not trust his luck too far. Consequently his letters had","cbCaihrVPfkMAWU7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihrVPfkMAWU7","pdf",955346,167,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Dr. Montague’s investigation and recruitment\n## Eleanor Vance’s background and arrival","[{\"question\":\"Why does Dr. John Montague rent Hill House for three months?\",\"answer\":\"He rents it to observe and explore unsavory stories about the house, expecting to be compensated by the impact of his definitive work on psychic disturbances in haunted houses.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Dr. Montague choose assistants for the investigation?\",\"answer\":\"He searches records of psychic societies, sensational newspapers, and parapsychology reports, then eliminates those who are dead, publicity-seeking, of unsuitable intelligence, or too inclined to take center stage.\"},{\"question\":\"What makes Eleanor Vance’s situation significant when she arrives at Hill House?\",\"answer\":\"She is socially isolated and emotionally burdened by years of caring for an invalid mother, leaving her with difficulties in sunlight, conversation, and feeling truly happy.\"}]","The Haunting of Hill House - Chapter 1 - No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely | PDF",1789948392,257]