Susan Hill – The Cultural Gutter

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“Nightgowns and Nightmares: Amulet and the Women of Gothic Film”

By Guttersnipe on August 17, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

At Jumpcut Online, Fiona Underhill writes about Gothic horror and recent films directed by women. “Madness and melodrama, obsession, suppression and repression – the questioning of sanity, gas-lighting, confusion over what is real or unreal, not knowing who to trust are also huge elements of Gothic fiction (and […]

The Monster at the End of this Book

By Angela Englert on May 30, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

It takes a special sort of person to be haunted. It also takes a special sort of person to be a haunting. This is the unquiet thing looking up at me from the bottom of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, although I’ll admit that reading is influenced […]