It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous h… - Shirley Jackson

No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Well, she asked, how do you gentlemen like living in a haunted house?
It's perfectly fine, Luke said, perfectly fine. It gives me an excuse to have a drink in the middle of the night.