The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories: The Collected Ghost Stories of Susan Hill

Posted on 09 January 2018 by Susan Hill

A stunning gift edition collecting together Susan Hill s spinechilling stories of murder, magic and mayhem No one chills the blood like Susan Hill Daily TelegraphFrom the horrifying secret of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black to the supernatural terror unleashed by spiteful Leonora van Vorst in Dolly and the deadly danger posed by Professor Parmitter s painting of Venice in The Man in the Picture, Susan Hill s ghost stories never fail to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and keep you turning the pages long past midnight.Here, collected together for the first time and also including the bestselling Printers Devil Court and The Small Hand are all of Susan Hill s spinechilling stories of murder, magic and mayhem.Read on if you dare. New Download The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories: The Collected Ghost Stories of Susan Hill by Susan Hill For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I ve been dishing out too many stars lately, so I ll just mention that this is at the top of the end of the four star bracket Now My initial thoughts here involve a typewriter, a provincial salesroom, and the ghost of M.R James Well, OK, that s a bit of a lie, my initial thoughts involved regret at watching part of the film before reading The Woman in Black, because nothing spoils a good story like a headful of superfluous images, but you don t need to know that because there isI ve been dishing out too many stars lately, so I ll just mention that this is at the top of the end of the four star bracket Now My initial thoughts here involve a typewriter, a provincial salesroom, and the ghost of M.R James Well, OK, that s a bit of a lie, my initial thoughts involved regret at watching part of the film before reading The Woman in Black, because nothing spoils a good story like a headful of superfluous images, but you don t need to know that because there isthan a little of Montague Rhodes James about the first three of these stories they are the kind of tale that relies on subtly building dread, expert pacing, and delicacy of touch, rather than blood all over the walls good old fashioned supernatural horror, in other words If you re the...This is a collection of five novels novellas by Susan Hill that all feature ghosts or hauntings of some description The titles included are The Woman in Black, Dolly, The Man in the Picture, Printer s Devil Court and The Small Hand.Overall, this is a great collection Hill writes in a pastiche style of Victorian England that feels thoroughly convincing and the stories are genuinely creepy You won t find a literary equivalent of the jump scare, but stories that are unsettling This is the This is a collection of five novels novellas by Susan Hill that all feature ghosts or hauntings of some description The titles included are The Woman in Black, Dolly, The Man in the Picture, Printer s Devil Court and The Small Hand.Overall, this is a great collection Hill writes in a pastiche style of Victorian England that feels thoroughly convincing and the stories are genuinely creepy You won t find a literary equivalent of the jump scare, but stories that are unsettling This is the type of horror fiction that I like, often drawing on the past, andatmospheric and creepy than terrifying, so I was completely happy Reading these over the course of one day does make me aware that there is a formulaic element to them they are often recounted in first person, past tense by a male narrator who is frequently looking back on events of some years ago This was something that I noted,...3.5 5 The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories is an Ageless based, Anthology of Horror based short stories by Susan Hill exploring the themes of murder, magic and mayhem that raise the hairs on the back of your neck These classic and contemporary short stories are perfect for aficionados of the paranormal genre, enhanced with gripping plots that keep the page turning The assembled collection is classic for gothic literature, staying true to character The Woman in Black remains the 3.5 5 The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories is an Ageless based, Anthology of Horror based short stories by Susan Hill exploring the themes of murder, magic and mayhem that raise the ha...I received a copy of this to review from Allen and Unwin New Zealand I think I requested it through their website a few months ago because I d seen the movie adaptation of The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe and wanted to read the original story I think I m going to write about the stories one at a time and then give my opinion on the book From what I can remember of The Woman in Black movie they changed it from the story I think I remember Daniel s character at a train station at the I received a copy of this to review from Allen and Unwin New Zealand I think I requested it through their website a few months ago because I d seen the movie adaptation of The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe and wanted to read the original story I think I m going to write about the stories one at a time and then give my opinion on the book From what I can remember of The Woman in Black movie they changed it from the story I think I remember Daniel s character at a train station at the end I m not sure But that didn t happen in the book The story was okay I think my problem was I was judging it against the movie, which is why I try to read the book first This ghost story wasn t scary but I did enjoy reading it The second story in the book is called Dolly I m not sure if I liked this one or not, it was really weird There are two dolls that have so...This was a strong 3 star readI am not the biggest fan of short stories but each of these had enough detail for me to sympathise with the characters, and the endings tied things up nicely without being rushed.Things that struck me about this collection were that every story has a male narrator despite the author being female.With the exception of one story the ghost supernatural presence were female and they didn t appear to care about the innocence or guilt of those they were haunting, in fact a This was a strong 3 star readI am not the biggest f...Well it s the end of October, AKA Halloween The perfect time for some ghost stories, right I have read The Woman In Black a couple of times and loved it, so I decided to skip over that one and enjoy the other stories in this collection After all, I was desperate to readof Susan Hill s spooky tales and here was the chance to do just that I have to say, many of these stories felt entirely original in their concept despite the fact that there is clearly a formula to Hill s ghost Well it s the end of October, AKA Halloween The perfect time for some ghost stories, right I have read The Woman In Black a couple of times and loved it, so I decided to skip over that one and enjoy the other stories in this collection After all, I was desperate to readof Susan Hill s spooky tales and here was the chance to do just that I have to say, many of these stories felt entirely original in their concept despite the fact that there is clearly a formula to Hill s ghost story telling I began to recognise a sort of pattern to how the story would start, follow through, and then end Similarities between say The Man In The Picture and The Woman In Black were clear But I couldn t necessarily always guess each twist and I liked that about them.Hill is an extraordinary writing talent I do not spook easily when it comes to reading, but a couple of times I felt a chill at the words I was reading Part of it comes from the real horror that these curses and vengeful spirits...ve read The Woman in Black, Dolly and The Man in the Picture before I thoroughly enjoyed them so it was a treat to read them again in this collected edition Of these three tales, Dolly is my favourite There s something so unsettling about it and the image of the china doll, long buried in the earth which has aged Printers Devil Court is a creepy, atmospheric read The Small Hand is the best tale in the collection I loved every word of it This tale ve read The Woman in Black, Dolly and The Man in the Picture before I thoroughly enjoyed them so...Good classic ghost stories Not scary by modern standards but literary they were well thought out instead of Hollywood garbage out for cheap thrills Some stories were better than others but overall, a great introduction to Susan Hill, and highl...I finally waded through all the descriptions and found amazingly scary stories Thing is, I guess if my imagination wasnt as awesome as it is, I would have probably enjoyed this book a lotBut for me, it was too detailed Apart from that, nice little creepy book.Took forever to finish , classy horror Susan hill is the person for classic horror My favorite was the Venetian painting , was haunted by the story for days afterwards Though her style is kinda repetitive, as are her stories They definitely send chills down the spine

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09 January 2018

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