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Publisher | Vintage |
ISBN 13 | 9780099288473 |
ISBN 10 | 99288478 |
Author | Susan Hill |
Language | English |
Book Description | 'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express Read the truly terrifying classic English ghost story behind the play. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose. 'No one chills the heart like Susan Hill' Daily Telegraph**If you love The Woman in Black, try The Various Haunts of Men, the first book in Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler series** |
Editorial Review | "No one chills the heart like Susan Hill" (Daily Telegraph) "An excellent ghost story… magnificently eerie… compulsive reading" (Evening Standard) "A rattling good yarn, the sort that chills the mind as well as the spine" (Guardian) "Heartstoppingly chilling" (Daily Express) "Terrifying... creepy classic" (Daily Mail) "Susan Hill is the reigning queen of ghost writers and her period novella…is a classic, broodingly creepy and at times terrifying" (Michael Hogan Observer) "Hill’s haunting tales may be slim, but they pull no punches…" (Harper's Bazaar) "She writes with great power… Authentically chilling" (Daily Telegraph) "One of the strongest stories of supernatural horror...the work bursts into life and does not flag until the end" (Washington Post) "Irresistibly dramatic... Susan Hill has done the genre real honour" (Chicago Tribune) |
About the Author | Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and the Somerset Maugham; and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, Im the King of the Castle and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black has been running in Londons West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk. |
Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition Number | New |
Publication Date | 35954 |
Number of Pages | 208 |
The Woman In Black Paperback English by Susan Hill - 35954