![]() ![]() …a rattling good tale, the sort that chills the mind as well as the spine. ![]() ![]() As the tension of premonition and disaster builds and builds, the ghostly screams of an accident long ago will haunt the reader’s imagination long after the last page has been turned. This is a story of vengeance, of an old curse from an embittered woman, all centred on the brooding Eel Marsh House, gloomy and isolated and cut off from the mainland at high tide. Hill creates believable period characters, she creates a hermetic world that yet speaks of wider superstitions and histories, and creates plots with tension, pace and jeopardy without ever becoming heavy-handed. ![]() Hill’s haunting tales may be slim, but they pull no punches… - Harper’s Bazaarįor my money, the greatest of the contemporary ghost writers. Irresistibly dramatic… Susan Hill has done the genre real honour. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child’s scream in the fog, and most dreadfully and for Kipps, most tragically, the woman in black. Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor, has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. “One of the strongest stories of supernatural horror…the work bursts into life and does not flag until the end.”- The Washington PostĪn internationally acclaimed and haunting ghost story. ![]()
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