The Woman In Black
A Mystery, Gothic, Ghost Stories book. I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before...
Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor in London, is summoned to Crythin Gifford to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, and to sort through her papers before returning to London. It is here that Kipps first sees the woman in black and begins to gain an impression of the mystery surrounding her. From the funeral he travels to Eel Marsh House and sees the woman again; he also hears the terrifying sounds on the marsh.Despite Kipps’s experiences he resolves to spend the night at the house...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780099583349 / 99583348
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...I was forced to live through it all, every minute and then every day thereafter... Susan Hill, The Woman in Black // She had a ghostly pallor and a dreadful expression, she wore clothes that were out of keeping with the styles of the present-day; she had kept her distance from me and she had not spoken. Something emanating from her still, silent presence, in each case by a grave, had communicated itself to me so strongly that I had felt indescribable repulsion and fear. And she had appeared and then vanished in a way that surely no real, living, fleshly human being could possibly manage to do. And Susan Hill, The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story // I did not look about me, though sometimes I glanced up into the great bowl of the night sky and at the constellations scattered there and the sight was comforting and calming to me, things in the heavens seemed still to be aright and unchanged. But nothing else was, within me or all around. I knew now that I had entered some hitherto unimagined - indeed, unbelieved-in - realm of consciousness, that coming to this place had already changed me and that there was no going back. Susan Hill, The Woman in Black //
3.5 Stars Apparently I'd had this book on my radar (AKA: Goodreads To-Read list) for a long time, but forgot all about it - until the movie starring Harry Potter Daniel Radcliff was being advertised all over the place. I then thought, "Oooooh creepy shiny!" and tried to add it, only to realize I had already done been added it. And now... A disappointment. I kept hearing about how this was a real honest-to-god, old-fashioned ghost story steeped in the tradition of James and James (Henry and Montague Rhodes)that delivered a frisson of genuine terror and some very fine writing as well. Alas! I didn't find any of this to be true.For starters, I didn't believe the narrator.... I was perusing the Amazon bestseller list when I first stumbled on Susan Hills mystery The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story. Why the book, originally published in 1983, was on the list at all is likely the greatest mystery of all.Lawyer Arthur Kipps is sorting through a deceased clients paperwork at Eel House when he first encounters the...
