Susan Hill: 'The Woman in Black', London, Jonathan Cape, 198...

Hammer

£220

Susan Hill: 'The Woman in Black', London, Jonathan Cape, 1983, 1st edition, signed bookplate loosely inserted, illustrations by John Lawrence throughout, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, together with the 2011 reissue of the same title, London, Profile Books Limited, 2011, 1st edition thus, signed piece mounted to title page, original cloth, dust wrapper, 'The Woman in Black and other Ghost Stories', L, Profile, 2015, 1st collected edition, signed on title page, original cloth, dust wrapper. Susan Hill is best known for her gothic horror novel The Woman in Black, about a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town. Her descriptive gothic style is in the vein of the traditional English ghost story, relying on suspense and atmosphere to create its impact, similar to the classic ghost stories by Montague Rhodes James and Daphne du Maurier. (3)