Wow. That might have been why? Reading it in one night. Thinking you did lots of skimming? I had it, but could never get myself to read it - I think because I saw the film first.

Weirdly, I've never been scared by books. I read the Shining, didn't bug me at all, but Kubrick's film...of course I saw it in a dorm during a break. My wing of the dorm was empty. We were in Colorado. There was snow on the ground. And it was deadly quiet. Not a film to watch in a huge building that is mostly empty.

I will state that Jackson's Haunting of Hill House is disturbing, as are the ghost stories by Henry James...