The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories by Susan Hill

The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories by Susan Hill

A remote house on the marsh. A woman in black who never leaves.

Arthur Kipps is sent to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the reclusive owner of Eel Marsh House. The house stands isolated at the end of a causeway, cut off by tide and fog, its windows staring across empty marshland.

At the funeral, Kipps glimpses a wasted woman dressed entirely in black. No one will acknowledge her. In the village, silence follows her name. As Kipps remains at the house to settle Drablow’s affairs, the atmosphere tightens. Footsteps echo in empty rooms. A child’s cry carries across the marsh.

This collection centers on the novella that made Hill’s reputation, a ghost story in which grief becomes vengeance and the past refuses burial. The additional tales deepen that sense of unease, where ordinary lives are unsettled by forces that cannot be reasoned with.

'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express

'No one chills the heart like Susan Hill' Daily Telegraph

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful

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

It is bursting with classic Gothic horror motifs and Susan Hill is a master of atmospheric descriptions. She evokes so cleverly the decrepit Eel Marsh House, the mention of its name enough to make the locals pause, their faces darken in unspoken wariness… The Woman in Black gives a thrilling sense of unease and provides just the right level of things that go bump in the night for a spine-tingling good read.—Khoollect

This spine-tingling novel… will certainly keep your nerves jangling—Woman's Weekly

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 a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. 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 is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

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ISBN 13	9781784878368
ISBN 10	1784878367
Title	The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories
Author	Susan Hill
Series	Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2023-10-05
Number of pages	752
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.