The Woman in Black

Hill, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099288478 ISBN 13 : 9780099288473

Editeur : Vintage, 1998

Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows.

Revue de presse :

"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)

Quatrième de couverture :

‘I did not believe in ghosts’

Few attend Mrs Alice Drablow’s funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr Arthur Kipps, solicitor from London. He is to spend the night in Eel Marsh House, the place where the old recluse died amidst a sinking swamp, a blinding fog and a baleful mystery about which the townsfolk refuse to speak.

Young Mr Kipps expects a boring evening alone sorting out paperwork and searching for Mrs Drablow’s will. But when the high tide pens him in, what he finds – or rather what finds him – is something else entirely.

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Turn to page 55 to read about Arthur’s first sighting of the woman in black…