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| Author | Susan Hill |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Profile Books |
Publication date | September 29th 2016 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 183 |
| ISBN | 1-78125-619-5 |
The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories was initially a 2016 collection of four short stories by British author Susan Hill. The 2017 paperback edition included a fifth story, "Printer's Devil Court". [1]
Andrew Michael Hurley in The Guardian writes that Hill "offers four new stories that occupy that place where the humdrum meets the horrific. "The Front Room" sees an act of familial charity end in malicious retribution from beyond the grave.In "Alice Baker", the arrival of a new office worker brings with it a series of strange events that are only explained when building work unearths a tragic incident from the past. "Boy Number Twenty-One" is less assured. It feels more like indecision on the writer's part, as though she is still playing with ideas, and the story reads disappointingly like a first draft, in which voice, plot and structure have yet to be fully realised. In the title story, Hill is on more familiar ground...Anger and jealousy drive Craig to an act of revenge that is reminiscent of the best moments of the macabre in MR James's stories. [2]
Tim Martin writes in The Telegraph that it "is so heavy on the atmosphere that not much chill creeps in around the edges. Even so, "Alice Baker", in which the women of a crumbling office block are haunted by a mysterious temp who lurks in the corner smelling "of rottenness and decay", and "The Front Room", in which a family welcome a malevolent elderly relative into their home, have their authentically unnerving moments." [3]
Kate Saunders in The Times acknowledges that Hill: "produces traditional ghost stories of wonderful elegance" and that she "builds an atmosphere of creepiness in very few words; the pictures she creates in these stories are unforgettable." [4]
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