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Arthur Kipp, the protagonist of The Woman in Black, is a promising attorney in a London law firm who is sent to Crythin Gifford, a sunken town in a windy quagmire, to attend the funeral of her client Alice Darblow as well as settle her inheritance cases. Kipps knows nothing about the secrets hidden behind the shutters of Mrs. Darblow’s house, standing at the end of the canal and shrouded in fog and mystery.
A routine business trip takes an unexpected turn when the attorney is haunted by serially repetitive sounds and images: a rocking chair in an empty nursery, the inexplicable sound of a carriage, a child’s cry in the fog and – the most terrifying – ghostly woman in black.
Psychologically terrifying and wonderfully surprising, The Woman in Black is an excellent, first-rate thriller. In 2012, James Watkins made a film under the same title as the novel, starring Daniel Radcliffe.
The antiquarian Adam Snow, the protagonist of Hand, returns late in the evening from a client. When she looks for shortcuts, she gets lost and comes across a run-down, ancient White House. As he enters the former garden, he suddenly feels a small hand slipping into his hand, as if in the darkness a little kid stood beside him and wanted to hold on.
Intrigued, Snow decides to find out more and discovers some details of the turbulent history of the mysterious house, which has been forgotten after a short period of glory. At first the peculiar experience only interests the antiquarian, but soon he is haunted by dramatic dreams, panic attacks, and more and more frequent visits by the hand, more and more menacing and sinister …
Susan Hill is one of the most respected British writers, awarded with the prestigious Whitbread Award, Somerset Maugham Award and John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. Susan Hill’s novels never fail, scary and amazing skillfully build a mood of horror.
