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• This is a book that I tried a few years ago and couldn't really get into. However, as I'm going to see the play next week I thought I would give it another go. It's funny how tastes change, as I loved it the second time round and found it to be a compelling ghost story. I wasn't scared by it, but I did read the majority of it in the daytime. Had I read it at night on my own I might have been more spooked by it.Susan Hill has written a modern classic with The Woman in Black, and this is a book that I believe will endure for many years to come. It's a very short book, but tightly packed with ghostly goings-on and I loved how Susan Hill brought the story to a conclusion. Highly recommended.

  5.00 out of 5

  nicx27

• I do not love horror. I stay away from it because I'm a coward so to read and finish this one is a big feat for me. Surprisingly, I loved it. It IS scary but not in a conventional way. There are no demon possession, flying objects or ghosts that walks through walls. It only has a woman in black and the sound of a child dying. I wouldn't be that scared if not for Susan Hill's narrative. She is the queen of adjectives. She'll describe fear in 20+ words that you won't have any excuse but to feel it! I was reading this book while riding to train (never in the dark or alone!) but still I got goosebumps. That's how good Susan Hill is. There is something poetic in the way she writes and I would probably read more of her works - horror or not.

  5.00 out of 5

  krizia_lazaro

• To me this rates up there with Dickens' Signalman or many of M.R. James best stuff. Really good ghost stories are so hard to find so all seekers of a supernatural chilling should throw another log on the fire and reach for The Woman in Black.

  5.00 out of 5

  Finxy

• The back cover of this short novel says: “What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recess of his or her heart, for a really literate, first-class thriller—one that chills the body, but warms the soul with plot, perception, and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story written by Jane Austen?” How can you resist a hook like that?I first read The Woman in Black in 2002 after seeing the play of the same name in London’s West End. The story features a young solicitor named Arthur Kipps who’s dispatched to the north of England to settle the affairs of the recently-deceased Mrs. Drablow, an elderly woman who lived at the remote Eel Marsh House.The Woman in Black is a ghost story with all the requisite elements: a strange woman dressed in black, a locked room with a rocking chair that won’t stop moving; and the eerie sound of a pony and trap in the fog. It’s one of the creepiest books I’ve read in a long time—Company of Liars may be the exception. There’s no blood here, just a spine-tingling yet subtle mystery. There's really nothing more I can say; this book is perfect.

  5.00 out of 5

  Kasthu

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