The screenplay is the one about the group of people who promise to spend the night in a haunted house. In this case ... perambulating skeletons. Haunted Hill is expertly put together.

Elizabeth Hand’s “A Haunting on the Hill” (Mulholland) is, the book jacket notes, “the first novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.” ...

After four days and 15 tries, California Republican Kevin McCarthy captured a majority of votes from his fractious caucus to become Speaker of the House of Representatives. McCarthy’s ordeal ...