Title: The Woman in Black
Author: Susan Hill
Published Year: 1983
Pages: 164
Told like a classic ghost story, The Woman in Black is mesmerizing and spellbinding. As I read this novel I was taken back to other older works such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and Wuthering Heights just to name a few. This book may seem slow and drawn out for such a simple tale, but the way Hill writes creates an older time period realistically based on novels I have read that were actually written in the time period that this one is taking place.
The story follows the likes of an elderly gentleman who is celebrating the holidays with his family and his grandchildren make a game up of telling scary tales. They ask their grandfather to tell a story as well, and he replies that he has no tale that he can think of. The truth is that he encountered his own ghost story and lived through it when he was a young man and just starting out. As his grandchildren go to bed, he decides he must write the tale and not share it with anyone, but he must write it to come to terms with what happened those days in which is occurred, and this is the story that is the book of The Woman in Black.
It is not an overly scary book. I have read hundreds of ghost stories both fictional and non-fiction and this is a bare bones type of story. There is more mystery than horror and of course the mystery is solved as the pages fly through your hands.
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