SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
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
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