The Woman In Black

The iconic victorian England sci-fi/horror novella wrote by Susan Hill in 1983, processes a well thought out theme and eerie presence to grip the reader and make them want to follow reading and discover the true identity of 'The Woman In Black.' The book starts off with the London family Arthur Kipps, a  retired solicitor having to tell a ghost story to his step children, where he dashes in the horror to his room, after thought provoking images of past experiences of being a solicitor in the search of the dead woman's will, Alice Drablow.

He finds himself on the journey to find Alice Drablow's will by his boss, Mr Bentley, he's told by his boss that the house he must go to is in Yorkshire, and that Alice was a social outcast, and that both her and the house has a strange presence but proceeds to go on with plans due to his economical state. I feel like this book applies to people who want a gripping and disturbing ambient experience while reading. Compared to Susan Hills other novels such as The Soul of Discretion which was published in 2014, The woman in black proves to be one of the more popular and well known.

Yet little does he know the curse of the small place in Yorkshire, that when encountering the woman in black, a child in the town dies a tragic death...

Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book due to its excellent gripping techniques of always keeping the reader on edge. I wouldn’t recommend to those of the light hearted, and don’t enjoy horrors. I rate this novella 4 out of 5