The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill
Susan Hill · 1983 · 192 pages
ISBN 9781567921892
"It was a Monday afternoon in November and already growing dark, not because of the lateness of the hour--it was barely three o'clock--but because of the fog, the thickest of London pea-soupers.' So begins Arthur Kipps' account of the terrible events at Eel Marsh House. When he was instructed to take the train to the north, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow in Crythin Gifford, he imagined that it would be one of those formalities which all young, up-and-coming solicitors must tolerate: there would be a certain number of papers to sift through, the will to be read, the funeral…
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