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.

You're a young woman. You can choose. Which career to pursue. Who to have sex with. Who to marry and have children - or not - with. This is now. Step into the shoes of Olive. You're a happy, open-hearted girl. Your (tricky) mother is dead and you live with your father in a solid, Edwardian house with apple trees in the garden. He's a kind man who does his fair share around the house. Your passion for books gets you easily into university, where the world is surely waiting for you. There, you take part in a play, and are noticed by the leading man. Even though he's not as glamorous off-stage, he becomes your boyfriend. But then you make a mistake - the kind any one of us could make - and face an impossible choice. You are young, still, and full of hope. You can't possibly know how that mistake will sit in your heart. Or that when you get a job at a wonderful school you will meet an older colleague and fall in love. But the affair must stay secret; the world won't have it any other way. All you have ever wanted is for your heart to be free. But you are living in a time and place where freedoms we now take for granted had the power to destroy. PRAISE FOR SUSAN HILL: "Subtle and profoundly moving...one of our finest novelists". (Sunday Times). "Almost unbearably poignant...this short book will live long in the memory". (Independent on Sunday). "A novel of great structural and stylistic control". (Guardian).

New chilling tales from the ''grande dame of English supernatural fiction''.From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the evil otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the author of The Woman in Black.In the title story, on a murky evening in a warmly lit club off St James, a bishop listens closely as a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building.In ''The Front Room'', a devoutly Christian mother tries to protect her children from the evil influence of their grandmother, both when she is alive and when she is dead.A lonely boy finds a friend in ''Boy Number 21'', but years later he is forced to question the nature of that friendship, and to ask whether ghosts can perish in fires.This is Susan Hill at her best, telling characteristically flesh-creeping and startling tales of thwarted ambition, terrifying revenge and supernatural stirrings that will leave readers wide-awake long into the night.

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...

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 . . .

A little boy is snatched at the gate of his home while he waits for his lift to school. An ex-con struggling to go straight finds himself drawn back into a criminal ring. A young woman hovers between life and death. Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is called in to investigate.

A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill in Lafferton. The police have one lead - a pair of expensive cuff-links found in her flat, with a mysterious note attached to them. Then a young girl, an old man and even a dog disappear in quick succession in exactly the same place.

Children are vanishing. The village of Lafferton is shattered. There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at large. Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a cal

Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child growing up in the 1950s, her life is contented. When her passion for reading gets her into university she feels sure the world is waiting for her. But then she makes a mistake - the kind any one of us could make - and faces an impossible choice. 'A shattering coming-of-age story' Daily Telegraph