The Woman in Black-a Ghost Story-update - Susan Hill Audiobook

Written by Susan Hill
Read by Ralph Cosham
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Note: I have removed the text file to prevent changes from causing problems
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ripped from CD audiobook
Blackstone Audio 2011

The Woman in Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler — proof positive that this neglected genre, the ghost story, isn’t dead after all.

What true readers do not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of their hearts, for a really literate, first-class thriller — one that chills the body but warms the soul with plot, perception, and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story written by Jane Austen?

Alas, we cannot give you Austen, but Susan Hill’s remarkable Woman in Black comes as close as our era can provide. Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child’s scream in the fog, and most dreadfully — and for Kipps most tragically — the Woman in Black.

from library:
Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor, is sent to Crythin Gifford to inquire on the death of the reclusive and elderly Mrs. Alice Drablow, known by many to be ‘the woman in black.’ However, the townsfolk are very reluctant to reveal anything they know about the deceased woman, striking Arthur’s suspicion. As he digs deeper, he begins to uncover a mystery involving an illegitimate child, a tragic death,