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Masterfully atmospheric and chilling to the core, Hill’s pitch-perfect horror story about a mysterious woman all dressed in black who haunts an English village surrounded by marshes and sea fog is a gloriously ghostly read.
Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows.
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.
Yorkshire-born writer Susan Hill’s writing career has been as wide-ranging as it has been phenomenally successful, encompassing literary fiction, crime novels, plays, ghost stories, children’s books and memoirs.
As well as being one of the world’s bestselling novelists, her work has attracted extensive critical acclaim having won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys awards, as well as having been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099288473
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 153 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 13 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
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
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“Goose bumps...”
I don't know if it was because of the hype of the book, or Susan Hill's atmospheric descriptions, but The Woman in Black was giving me goosebumps from the start. Arthur Kripps is spending Christmas Eve with... More
“Good read”
Really enjoyed this, very well written and to the point - gave me the shivers !
“Unnerving, but in the best possible sense!”
A resolute and determined Arthur Kipp has his sanity severely tested in this genuinely unnerving ghost story. As the mystery of the woman in black slowly unfolds, the tension magnifies and leads us to a heart-stopping... More
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