![]() ![]() ![]() People get physically lost as the rooms are set in strange concentric circles which defy traditional architecture more importantly, characters’ subjectivity is consumed and appropriated by the house. Similarly, the interior of the Hill House is off centre and disjointed. Walter Gilman's room in the Witch House is strangely shaped and represents a passage into a parallel world which Gilman, a mathematician firmly set into the world of scale, first believes to exist only in dreams. ![]() Specifically, both texts are set in a house that is shaped according to a scale unknown and repulsive to humans, suggesting that the architecture of evil is out of scale literally and metaphorically. Lovecraft's ‘The Dreams in the Witch House’ (1932) and Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (1959) embody the Gothic idea of subversion through their use of space. ![]()
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