The Woman In Black: A Ghost Story (library Edition)

from coloradogirl14

As with many of the books I read, I picked this one up after watching the movie, which scared the living daylights out of me. The book, on the other hand was a much tamer experience - more atmospheric than downright terrifying, but still pleasantly spooky. This is a traditional English ghost stor...

from rainpebble

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill; (3 1/2*) A good story of haunting, The Woman in Black really held this reader's interest. It has everything a good ghost story entails. A dark & boding house, the eerie marshlands surrounding said house, strange things that 'go bump in the night', the small villa...

from Carol420

Written in a style that is perfect for rainy afternoons and quite hours of dark, the ghost story is good- it uses the readers imagination to fill in the gaps...and really, what is scarier than the things only we can dream up? A very well written story that is perfectly creepy, atmospheric, and su...

from Banoo

This was a good old-fashioned ghost story, the kind of story that gets into your head, the kind that makes you lock the door... at least it was for me, especially that night, when reading about the noises coming from behind the locked door, and the dog was growling scared, and the noises didn't s...

from Meredy

Within the frame tale of the old English tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve, the author delivers plenty of creepy atmosphere, suspense, and spooky happenings. She does quite a nice job of imitating the style of an educated writer of the 19th century without going overboard with a...