Susan Hill, author of the classic modern British ghost story The Woman In Black, and the novels The Man In The Picture and The Mist In The Mirror, has a new ghost book coming out,.the eerie-sounding The Small Hand. (She clearly has a thing for “The…” titles…) It’s published by Profile Books and due out in September. Susan Hill’s novels are tense, detailed and atmospheric evocations of periods and places – they’re chilling rather than thrilling, but always a great read. The blurb sounds promising already:
“Returning home from a visit to a client late one summer’s evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow takes a wrong turning and stumbles across the derelict old White House. Compelled by curiosity, he approaches the door, and, standing before the entrance feels the unmistakable sensation of a small hand creeping into his own, ‘as if a child had taken hold of it’.”
