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I have to say I was hesitant to pick up The Woman in Black because so many people compared it to The Haunting of Hill House, which I didn‘t love. But The Woman in Black is really good. Susan Hill‘s writing style is perfect for a horror novel. There was always this foreboding feeling hanging around. And the unexpected ending took if from a four star read to a five star read.

https://wildwoodreads.com/2021/10/28/the-woman-in-black-review/

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Day 15: face on cover
The Woman in Black 🖤

This was a fun little gothic story that felt very much like a combination of The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting of Hill House.

It was written in 1983, but feels like something something straight out of the Victorian era. From its language, setting, framing, motifs, tropes -everything- felt like a modern study on the Victorian gothic. There wasn‘t anything too scary, but the part that put a dog in danger had me grabbing my arm-rest!

I loved how this story began; a Victorian Christmas Eve around a fire telling ghost stories. Enjoyable story of a young attorney who travels to a small village to handle the estate of an elderly woman who recently passed. Best of all, he borrows a new friend‘s dog for company while he stays in the creepy mansion to sort through papers. The book is better than the movie. 😉🎥 #MountTBR

This was a good spooky not long read for October.

Attempts were made to stretch, move around, and get fed. We both failed at being upright with Pistachio going back to sleep and I to my ebook.

Tagged book is finished for day 1 of #24B4Monday! Since my print books are impossible to reach for I‘ll be looking over my tablet apps for something else.

@jb72 @Andrew65 @SumisBooks

A young, innocent man wants to analyze why a ghost is so full of menace. The paranormal bothers him greatly, but he does want to get to the bottom of it. Villagers won't help. Finally he learns the reason for the ghost's bitterness and it is disturbing to me.

#Scarathlon #TeamHarkness @StayCurious

4 hours of reading #CocosTurning50 @CocoReads #Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft #ReadYourOwnWay @TheSpineView #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
176 pts

Thanks for the tag @MoonWitch94 and @NomiReads .
I have carved a couple when my girls were younger but not this year.
Orange but white can be cool too.
Tagged above. I found this pretty creepy
Would you like to play @Clwojick @Andrew65 @Klou @jenniferw88

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

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#Scarathlon #TeamHarkness @StayCurious

Monster Stash (aka Pistachio) joining me in Friday night‘s reading of The Woman in Black.

#NovelWatchingCrew (#NWC)
@ElizaMarie, @AkashaVampie, @jb72, @AsYouWish, @mollyrotondo, @Readage, @Butterfinger

If I missed tagging a Novel Watching Crew member, please let me know and I‘ll add you to my list.

“I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence once lost, is lost forever.”
― Susan Hill, The Woman in Black

Who is your favorite Halloween character?

How would you survive a Horror movie or Book?

How well do you know these 90‘s Scary Movies, by their picture?
https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/90s-horror-movie-picture-quiz-47769151

#NovelWatchingCrew #NWC

#MountTBRchallenge Number 72. I finally got to this one. Here is my gr review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/272868622

This is a spooky, chilling ghost story, and enjoyable if you don‘t dig to deep.

But I kept having all kinds of questions. It‘s written in Victorian gothic style, but there seems to be motor cars and electricity. And how did they get electricity to such an isolated spot as Eel Marsh House, w/out electrical lines or generators? The whole setting just seemed a bit off, time period wise.

#screamathon
#booked2020 #gothichorror
#bookspinbingo

I've decided to read the tagged for this month. I've already read Rebecca and I don't read horror.

Since I don't watch horror either, my favorite horror movie is The Gremlins.

I didn't take the quiz, but I will add the link for others to take. https://www.lakecountrycalendar.com/news/quiz-how-well-do-you-know-your-classic-...

#NWC @AsYouWish @ElizaMarie @AkashaVampie

A new day, a new book.

Also watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix, wonder if I‘ll be able to sleep tonight? 👻 #screamathon

And here is my October #bookspin list, which is a combination of #Screamathon and #PemberLittens selections.

#bookspin

Read it in a day! Walked to the library to return it already and forgot to take a picture so you get the picture of my finished pumpkins! 🎃🎃🎃 🏚️🌊🌊

#spookyscary
#shortfictionbigworld

Rating 3.5 /5
The Woman in Black is my first novel from the horror genre. So I'm doubtful on how to give a review of this. The story is about a young solicitor Arthur Kipps who has to travel to a rural village in England to sort out legal papers of a dead client in her middle-of-nowhere house where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman. Unheeded warnings, strange sightings and sounds, hauntings, you get the drill.

This is a great little ghost story. A short read but rather suspenseful and written in a Victorian style, this book packs quite a punch for how small it is. I really enjoyed reading this one. The ending however was so very sad and ended rather abruptly. Other than that it was a very enjoyable read.

Finished this off on YouTube as an audiobook whilst busy in the kitchen and the end gave me goosebumps!!

Eerie & Haunting
‘Had I known that my untroubled night of good sleep was to be the last such that I was to enjoy for so many terrifying, wrapped and weary nights to come , perhaps I should have not jumped out of bed with such alacrity ..‘

‘For I see that then I was still in a state of innocence, but that innocence,once lost,is lost forever‘

This little book is supposed to be a horror but it‘s too beautifully written to be all that scary. The imagery of the English countryside and daily life was just what I needed to hold me over until I can visit my boyfriend again in England ✈️ Hill‘s writing is so dreamy and I was feeling so nostalgic to go back that I was actually like down to live in this haunted house.

've not managed to see the film as my partner hates jumpy films but the book was pretty good. The style of writing took a bit of getting used to but the story was very well done. Not scary though.

This book is a delight. It has everything I want in a proper English ghost story: small village with tight-lipped inhabitants (and the names are wonderful: Crythin Gifford!); drafty, damp remote house (Eel Marsh Hall!); landscape at once beautiful and threatening (the silvery marshes!); and of course, a vengeful ghost (you know who that is). The hauntings here have a sense of tradition and are no less chilling for their familiarity.

One of the most horrifying parts of this book concerns Spider the terrier. I kept imagining Puck, my own terrier, in Spider‘s place.

Here's my book review for "The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill.
https://youtu.be/S3RZhB7f7Fs

#GratefulReads - Black In the Title: Once I had seen the movie, I didn‘t think about coming back to the book. I don‘t know why? I think that I felt satisfied with knowing this story. Litsy has changed my mind... now I would like to dig a little deeper so maybe this will be a selection for October 2020 reading.

Fabulous evening at the theatre for daughter‘s birthday seeing #TheWomanInBlack. So much fun watching her jump at the scary bits!

Despite my back pain, I‘ve been to see the Woman in Black at the theatre tonight and it was pretty good! Not as scary as I thought it would be, but good nevertheless 👻 🎃 🦇 💀

Book 2 finished for #MrBook1inaMillion #litsypartyofone #24B4Monday. What a creepy, chilling story. This is a detailed and atmospheric ghost story. Not to be read late at night. The story itself is interesting and definitely eerie. The ending though, oh wow was not expecting that but it was so dark. A fantastic read 4* @MrBook @Andrew65 @Alisnazzy @Lynnsoprano @jb72 @Rachel.Rencher @Lucas.Rencher @TheReadingMermaid

@ljuliel posted this interesting questionnaire. Thanks @MrBook for tagging me.
1: all the people, love, new book suggestions.
2: Nothing I can really think of.
3: other have also suggested this but I'd love to see an owned TBR and a not owned one.
4: generally when I finish a book and the occasional questionnaire, photo challenge.
5: Readathons and questionnaires I love
6: maybe the option to add photos to other posts. ⬇️

#FALLISBOOKED -Day Twenty-Seven #COSTUME

I loved this book. What a creepy read for Halloween.

#ScreamathonPhotoChallenge #Gothic @4thhouseontheleft

“Whereas the bed had been made up neatly, now the clothes were pulled off anyhow and bundled up or trailing onto the floor. The wardrobe door and the drawers of the small chest were pulled open and all the clothes they contained half-dragged out, and left hanging like entrails from a wounded body.“

I can vividly remember how creeped out/ unnerved I was by this scene in particular.

#Read2012

First scary film of the day. I told Harry Potter not to go in that house... +4 under the new point system? (3 for scary movie/1 for post) #TeamStoker #scarathlon

#GhostStory #FallisBooked

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This is a tragic story and the description of the sounds paint a lovely picture in the reader's mind.
#Scarathlon #TeamStoker +3 pts
@TheReadingMermaid

(Pts total=235)

#HorrorCoverCrush Day 3.

I‘ve read a few of the stories from The Woman in Black and hope to sample a few more this month. 👻

So excited, I‘ve booked to take my children to see this at the York Theatre Royal - not quite its original setting of The Dury Lane Theatre, London where I first saw it, but I‘m sure it will be as excellent. Bring on the Gothic horror.

I‘m not usually one for #FrightandFear but this one is on my TBR list.

#SoulSeptember @Eggs

Back from dinner, managed to get in an hour and a half or so of reading between my last post and now. Am now settled in bed with drinks, snacks and blankets, ready to power on till midnight. How are you traveling so far? #HSreadathon #24B4Monday #SummersEndReadathon

This is billed as a “classic English ghost story” and I could not agree more. The pace is slow and languid, the atmosphere claustrophobic, tense and the story builds into a jaw clenching “get the heck outta there” moment. Not a thriller, but definitely a nice creepy read 3/5

#SpinePoetry #30JuneBooks @howjessreads

Red Sea Under Red Skies
Between Shades of Gray
The Woman in Black
Daughter of the Siren Queen
Wicked like a Wildfire

Still not that big into audiobooks (I can read books in at least half the time). Still, this one was quite enjoyable. While I prefer the movie, (as it‘s my favorite ghost movie), this isn‘t as dragging and garrulous as a lot of classic ghost stories tend to be. It was quite spooky, even if the “good stuff” only came in the 2nd half. I also love the dog. I mean, his name is “Spider”. Such a great name for a dog 😂

3rd book in halfoweenathon challenge was to read a book with movie adaptation.Movie was so different. I liked this ghostly story.I enjoyed very much how it was written, Arthur Kipp character was so well described on how he struggled between his rational and irrational mind? Supernatural? It was a sad story. I felt that I was in that house feeling that ghost.Story is slow not scary but more psychological? emotional? Book was received in swap3.8⭐️

#Creep #AnglophileApril

#49 in Paste magazine‘s list of the 50 best #horror novels of all-time. I listened to part of it in the dark during a bout of insomnia and it really creeped me out. The horror is subtle but memorable.

As with many, many books that become movies this is no exception, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill is vastly superior in its book form. A brilliant read for anyone interested in horror.