Susan Hill

Cuando el joven abogado Arthur Kipps recibe el encargo de viajar a un pueblo remoto del interior rodeado de marismas brumosas para asistir al entierro de una anciana no puede ni imaginar lo que le espera, y solo ve en ello la posibilidad de progresar profesionalmente, lo que quiza le permita finalmente casarse.Mientras intenta poner orden en el legado de la difunta, empieza a ver una extraña aparicion y se introduce en una historia que los lugareños intentan olvidar: la de una madre soltera que tuvo que dejar a su hijo al cuidado de su hermana, pero el niño se hundio en las marismas mientras su madre biologica lo miraba todo impotente desde su ventana. Segun dice la tradicion, siempre que alguien ve al espectro de la madre, muere un niño, y a la larga Arthur Kipps comprobara en su propia familia hasta que punto esa tradicion es cierta.Susan Hill demuestra conocer muy bien tanto los elementos mas recurrentes de la novela gotica como los mecanismos que hacen que resulten tan efectivos. Sin embargo, su verdadero talento consiste en dotar de una modernidad asombrosa todos estos recursos y conseguir que el lector se sorprenda y atemorice como si fuera la primera vez que lee una historia de fantasmas.Tras haber vendido mas de un millon de ejemplares en todo el mundo, llevada a los escenarios reiteradamente y con enorme exito, y adaptada tanto a la radio como a la television, esta estremecedora historia ha sido adaptada para la gran pantalla en una espectacular version dirigida por James Watkins y protagonizada por Daniel Radcliffe.

Cuando el joven abogado Arthur Kipps recibe el encargo de viajar a un pueblo remoto del interior rodeado de marismas brumosas para asistir al entierro de una anciana no puede ni imaginar lo que le espera, y solo ve en ello la posibilidad de progresar profesionalmente, lo que quiza le permita finalmente casarse.Mientras intenta poner orden en el legado de la difunta, empieza a ver una extraña aparicion y se introduce en una historia que los lugareños intentan olvidar: la de una madre soltera que tuvo que dejar a su hijo al cuidado de su hermana, pero el niño se hundio en las marismas mientras su madre biologica lo miraba todo impotente desde su ventana.Segun dice la tradicion, siempre que alguien ve al espectro de la madre, muere un niño, y a la larga Arthur Kipps comprobara en su propia familia hasta que punto esa tradicion es cierta.Susan Hill demuestra conocer muy bien tanto los elementos mas recurrentes de la novela gotica como los mecanismos que hacen que resulten tan efectivos.Sin embargo, su verdadero talento consiste en dotar de una modernidad asombrosa todos estos recursos y conseguir que el lector se sorprenda y atemorice como si fuera la primera vez que lee una historia de fantasmas.Tras haber vendido mas de un millon de ejemplares en todo el mundo, llevada a los escenarios reiteradamente y con enorme exito, y adaptada tanto a la radio como a la television, esta estremecedora historia ha sido adaptada para la gran pantalla en una espectacular version dirigida por James Watkins y protagonizada por Daniel Radcliffe.

Late one summers evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, and compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own.

A classic ghost story: the chilling tale of a menacing specter haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford--a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway--to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. Mrs. Drablow's house stands at the end of the causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but Kipps is unaware of the tragic secrets that lie hidden behind its sheltered windows. The routine business trip he anticipated quickly takes a horrifying turn when he finds himself haunted by a series of mysterious sounds and images--a rocking chair in a deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and, most terrifying of all, a ghostly woman dressed all in black.

This book offers the chilling tale of a painting so terrifying, its secrets will haunt those who see it It is a ghost story by the author of "The Woman in Black", to be read by the fire on a cold winter''s night A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver''s old professor in Cambridge On this cold winter''s night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don... Este libro nos relata la escalofriante historia de una pintura tan terrorifica que sus secretos persiguen a todo el que la contempla Es una historia de fantasmas de la autora de "The Woman in Black", escrita para ser leida en torno al fuego durante una fria noche de invierno Una misteriosa composicion que muestra a unos celebrantes enmascarados en un carnaval veneciano La obra cuelga de las paredes del apartamento del viejo profesor Oliver en la Universidad de Cambridge...

Simon Serrailler in love at last ... the third crime novel about Susan Hill's fictional Detective Chief Inspector, Simon Serrailler, continues the story of a busy police station in a small English Cathedral town. 'For the first time in years P.D. James has serious competition' Literary Review

Susan Hill's I'm King of the Castle was first published in 1970. Telling the story of two boys forced to live together by their widowed parents, it is a chilling portrayal of childhood cruelty and persecution, of parental blindness and of our own ambivalence to what are supposed to be the happiest days of our lives.

Simon Serrailler is back in the fifth installment of this extremely popular series. Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case for SIFT -- Special Incident Flying Task force and is on a sabbatical couple of months on a far-flung Scottish island, Tallansay, walking, drawing, relaxing, and having a pleasant no-ties fling with the hotel barmaid, Kirsty. He is called back just before his leave is due to end by Paula Devenish the Chief Constable, when two local prostitutes go missing and are subsequently found strangled. By the time he gets back, another girl has disappeared. So, a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? A series of killings by an angry punter? But then the wife of the new Dean of St Michael's Cathedral goes missing, followed by another respectable young married woman, on her way to the early shift at the print works. Is this all the work of one serial killer? The murders all take place in and around the canal area, near the footbridge. From the Hardcover edition.

Returning home 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 unmistakeable sensation of a small hand creeping into his own, 'as if a child had taken hold of it'.

Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again. A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill''s eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. Howard''s End is on the Landing charts the journey of one of the nation''s most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.

I''m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill is a chilling novel that explores the extremes of childhood cruelty, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.''Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.''But young Edmund Hooper doesn''t want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are soon installed and Hooper sets about subtly persecuting the fearful new arrival.In the woods, Charles fights back but he knows that his rival will always win the affections of the adults - and that worse is still to come . . .

One murky November evening after a satisfying meal in their Fleet Street lodgings, a conversation between four medical students takes a curious turn and Hugh is initiated into a dark secret. In the cellar of their narrow lodgings in Printer''s Devil Court and a little used mortuary in a subterranean annex of the hospital, they have begun to interfere with death itself, in shadowy experiments beyond the realms of medical ethics. They call on Hugh to witness an event both extraordinary and terrifying.Years later, Hugh has occasion to return to his student digs and the familiar surroundings resurrect peculiar and unpleasant memories of these unnatural events, the true horror of which only slowly becomes apparent.