Description

A beautiful hardback edition of the famously terrifying ghost story, The Woman in Black, together with four other spine-chilling tales in one beautiful volume.

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.

This illustrated edition includes four of Susan Hill’s scariest ghost stories: Dolly, The Man in the Picture, Printer’s Devil Court and The Small Hand.

‘Heartstoppingly chilling’ Daily Express

‘No one chills the heart like Susan Hill’ Daily Telegraph

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful

Illustrated by Nick Tankard

Publisher 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 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