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Title: The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill, John Lawrence ISBN: 1-56792-189-2 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tremendous Atmosphere
Comment: The most similar book I can compare this to is The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Like that book, The Woman in Black starts peacefully and builds up to a frightening crescendo that will "haunt" you long after you put the book down. Another similarity in the books is the tremendous sense of atmosphere. Eel Marsh House, where the haunting takes place, is set off by itself in flat, bleak, marshy wetlands and is connected to drier land by a single causeway, which becomes completely covered by water when the tide is high. When the protagonist, the young and foolishly stubborn lawyer Arthur K., sets off to spend a few days sorting out old documents by himself in the isolated mansion, you just want to scream, "Are you crazy? Don't stay there overnight, you idiot!" I particularly liked the way the spectral happenings were presented. There is no blood, no gore, just a brooding sense of evil and mystery. I also enjoyed the relationships Arthur establishes with the kindly Samuel Daily, a local landowner, and the little dog Spider that Samuel lends to him to keep him company in his ill-advised sojourn to the haunted house. All in all, a wonderfully-written ghost story that would appeal to those who find Stephen King's more lurid and less subtle books a bit distasteful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chilling and spooky
Comment: This is a great ghost story. I was introduced to it after seeing the stage-play at my local theatre. The play had the audience screaming and I just had to see how well they had translated the book.
The play is pretty faithful to the book and I urge you to see it if its ever around your area. As for the book it is well written and very chilling. I was gripped from the start, even though I knew what was happening. The story unfolds nicely and builds the mystery and horror up to a crescendo that almost leaves you gasping and then when you think its all over... well I won't spoil it - go and read it for yourself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chills where other books cannot reach
Comment: The Woman in Black is quite simply the best ghost story written so far. Short and lacking in the gore that is integral to average ghost stories. This is an impecable tale of a malevolent spirit who will not stop in her revenge on the society that wronged her. The story chills in a manner far more piercing than the cold marsh mists integral to the plot.
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Title: Hell House by Richard Matheson ISBN: 0312868855 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 13 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:The Woman in Black ASIN: B00004UEEU Publisher: Bfs Entertainment & Multimedia Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.98 |
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Title: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ISBN: 0140071083 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: June, 1984 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Haunted by Tamara Thorne ISBN: 0786010908 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Haunted Ground by Stephen Gresham ISBN: 0786015373 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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