A stunning gift edition collecting together Susan Hill's spine-chilling stories of murder, magic and mayhem.
'No one chills the blood like Susan Hill' Daily Telegraph
From 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 spine-chilling stories of murder, magic and mayhem.
Read on if you dare.
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[It was nine-thirty on Christmas Eve - THE WOMAN IN BLACK]***
(Profile Books, 24 September 2015, hardback, 416 pages, bought from @BarnardosScot)
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I'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 is very bleak and so creepy it made my flesh crawl. I knew I was going to love it as soon as the character feels a small hand take his but there's nobody there in the opening pages. I got the chills, let me tell you. One thing these tales have in common is how creepy and atmospheric they are. Hill is a master at this.