The Travelling Bag

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The Travelling Bag by Susan Hill weaves a chilling collection of ghostly tales, each delivering atmospheric suspense and eerie happenings. The stories explore the dark corners of human nature and the supernatural, leaving readers gripped and unsettled. Hill's mastery of the genre is evident in her ability to evoke fear through vivid imagery and mysterious plot twists.
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A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

CONTAINS 'THE FRONT ROOM' SOON TO BE A MAJOR A24 FILM

A terrifying collection of ghost stories by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

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 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 mother tries to protect her children from the increasingly unnerving influence of their own grandmother.

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 - flesh-creeping tales of thwarted ambition, terrifying revenge and supernatural stirrings that will leave readers wide awake long into the night.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529913446

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 191g

Pages: 272

About the Author

SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

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