"When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world."
"The late Lionel Halloran's wife Maryjane maintains that his mother Orianna--who stands to inherit the family home--murdered him by pushing him down the stairs. Orianna immediately takes control of the house its occupants. But household members begin to have visions about the end of the world, which comes to pass at least for Orianna, whose dead body is discovered on the landing."@en
"Jackson's macabre and satirical end-of-the-world novel wherein only the distinctly odd occupants of the old Halloran mansion in a small New England village will survive to begin the human race all over again."@en
"Before there was Hill House, there was the Halloran mansion of Jackson's stunningly creepy fourth novel, The Sundial."@en