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Two Novels
by Susan Hill
The Small Hand
Antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn and stumbles upon a derelict Edwardian house with a lush, overgrown garden. As he approaches the door, he is startled to feel the unmistakable sensation of a small, cold hand creeping into his own, almost as though a child has taken hold of it. Shaken, he returns home to find himself plagued by nightmares. But when he decides to investigate the house's mysteries, he is troubled by increasingly sinister visitations.
Dolly
After being orphaned at a young age, Edward Cayley is sent to spend the summer with his forbidding Aunt Kestrel at Iyot house, her decaying estate on the damp, lonely fens in the west of England. With him is his spoiled, spiteful cousin Leonora. And when Leonora's birthday wish for a beautiful doll is denied, she unleashes a furious rage which will haunt Edward through the years to come.
"Starred Review. Fear aficionados take note: these pleasing terrors shatter nerves with a whisper, not a scream." - Publishers Weekly
"A ghost-story duo that may remind many readers of [Stephen] King at his absolute best...Turn on the lights, readers. These tales are the definition of bone chilling." –Suspense Magazine
"An assuredly chilling ghost story." - The Guardian (London)
"Masterfully done. ... Subtle, elegant." – The Times (London)
"Spine-tingling fiction." - The Tattler (London)
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Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Prize, and the W. Somerset Maugham Award, and have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I`m the King of the Castle and A Kind Man, and she has also published collections of short stories and two autobiographies. Her ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in London's West End since 1988. Susan is married with two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
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