TZAIMS LUKSUS & HILL HOUSE

 

HILL HOUSE

A/K/A

BUCKTHORNE HALL

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THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

By: Shirley Jackson

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THE LOOTING OF HILL HOUSE

By:  Ian Ludders

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History

Shirley Jackson was inspired by Buckthorne Hall, earlier known as HILL HOUSE because it was on the hill.

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Bennington is made up of three villages,

VILLAGE OF OLD BENNINGTON

VILLAGE OF NORTH BENNINGTON

TOWN OF BENNINGTON

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 in Shirley Jackson's day when she was writing 

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THE LOTTERY

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The Town 's people in their way of life, inspired her finding how the were acting this way.

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A yearly sacrifice of one town's person had to die each year.  So they formed a lottery of all the women.

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The story was of a town that held a lottery each year and the winner, always a woman, was stoned to death by the town's people.

She was inspired by the Town of Bennington, to write this, when her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman was hired by Bennington College in North Bennington where she and Edgar both lived

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The stories about Hill House in the Village of Old Bennington, that local town's people claimed was haunted, and occippied by two women performing witch craft, compounding drugs and poisons, was also known where two people committed suicide, one, a womam in 1910, the wife of the man who hung himself in the attic in 1935.  Also of ghosts and poltergeists.

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So she wrote

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE 

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Hill House because the village of Old Bennington was the first built on a hill by  settlers from places like Salem, Massachusetts in the early 1700s,

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in 1963 

The artist 

TZAIMS LUKSUS

born in and raised till 18 years old in

Chigago, Illinois 

recently from 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 bought Hill House, knowing 

Shirley Jackson and Edgar Stanley Hyman, 

invited Tzaims to a party & reception at their mansion on the main street in North Bennington when 

he first moved into Hill House..

Shirley told him his house inspired her to write her short story based on local rumours, how it looked mysterious, dark and haunted, and told him the local rumours still spreading around.  Perhaps as a friendly gesture or a philosophical and scholary social anthropology.

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The Haunting of Hill House 

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Tzaims was both amused and fascinated but he was surprised meeting Shirley Jackson seeing how unliterary and uneducated she appeared and spoke poorly.  Hardly someone who could write seriously.

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Tzaims decided she must have conjured up the basic tale and her husband actually wrote it and The Lottery.  Her ghost writer.

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She was short, fat, unattractive facially,and dressed like a woman during the depression of the 19390s in actually a dirty stained cotten house dress appearing at her party looking like the hired cook coming out of the kitchen after a long day slaveing  under heavy steam.

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Never the less she was pleasamt, jolly, funny, innocent, unpretentious and laughed loudly at anything said whether funny or not, her fat body bouncing like a bowl of Jello.

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Stanley just stared at her sternly but silently.

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Stanley was thin, elegant, formally dressed like an early 20th century English gentleman, stiff and cold, hardly ever saying a word and never cracking a smile. 

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"Jack Sprat  who could eat no fat, and his wife who could eat no lean."

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This led him to change its name to 

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BUCKTHORNE HALL

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in 

1968

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Now that Tzaims lives in Rangoon, Burma

IAN LUDDERS

Of

EAGLE ISLAND, MAINE 

IN THE PENOBSCOT BAY 

off

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND

is writing 

THE LOOTING OF HILL HOUSE

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based further on additional ghost stories and what happens to the haunted and cursed looters.

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This should make it another best seller like Shirley Jackson's became.

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This story should continue.

The story should continue.

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They had two boysvand one or two girls as children then.

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Many decades later after Shirley died not long after Tzaims met her, her children grw up into illegal drug dealers an users.  Quite openly in the area but never any police action against them.  At some poine the New York Times reported a murder of a boy in znew Jersey.

He belonged to a young teen age Satanic clan that worshiped Satan believing if they each died a violent death Satan would give each of them 100 legions of demom angels to command., and they would join one another to excercise incredible power.

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The first boy to volunteer was brutally murdered by three others.  Pictures of them appeared in the NYT.

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It caused an upheaval in America,

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READING THIS Tzaims was led to look into white and dark magic as a scolarly study leading him to a book, 

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THE GRAND GRIMOIRE

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Unable to locate one he called Stanley Edgar Hyman, knowing he and Shirley had a vast library of magic books, and asked if he had one and could he borrow it.

Syanley said yes to both questions so that night he went to Stanley's house knocked on the front door, Stanley answered, not inviting him, and handed him the book.

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Stanley said be very cateful with it as it is very old and an original 1700s edition.  Return it in exacyly 14 days at this exact same time.

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Tzams read through it, noting the names of Satinic devils, their spiritual devices, logos and methods of conjuring.

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Then he had to stoped ane realized it was very dangerous, best to stop reading or studying it, forget all of it bo

and went to return it as Stanley requested but no one was home for a few days.  

Then one day Stanley called, very furious, demanding the book be returned that night.

Tzaims knocked and his daughter answered.  Stanley wasn't home. 

He gave her the book telling her to give the book to her father, and left.  She looked bewildered not knowing anthing about this book.

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That very quiet, dark, moonless night Stanley chose, there was a sudden dynamic bolt of lightning, loud enough to wake up the dead, over all of Bennington valley, mountains and hills, but no wind, rain or storm.

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The morning came, Gene woke Tzaims up and said: "Guess who died suddenlyly last night of a heart attack?"

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Tzaims said:

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"Stanley Edgar Hyman."

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Gene replied"

"YES!.  

"How did you know?"

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"The lightening last night."

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GENE ASKED

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"WHAT LIGHTENING?

THERE WAS NO LIGHTNING! "

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Tzaims meditated this calmly and seriously.  He handed the Grand Grimoire to Stanley's daughter, Stanley not being there at the appointed time.

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What did his daughter do?

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