The Bookshop Recommends: The Woman in Black

Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black is a masterclass in restrained, atmospheric horror, evoking the chilling elegance of Victorian ghost stories. Through spare, elegant prose and a tightly wound narrative, Hill conjures a world where grief lingers like fog and the past seeps relentlessly into the present. Eel Marsh House, shrouded in isolation and silence, becomes a symbol of dread as the eponymous specter emerges—not merely as a ghost, but as vengeance incarnate. This is a tale where fear creeps, rather than strikes, and where the final horror is as inevitable as it is devastating