Ideally spooky Halloween listening.... A chilling ghost story by the
author of The Woman in Black.
One murky November evening after a satisfying meal in their Fleet Street
lodgings, a conversation between four medical students takes a curious
turn and Hugh is initiated into a dark secret. In the cellar of their
narrow lodgings in Printer's Devil Court and a little used mortuary in
a subterranean annex of the hospital, they have begun to interfere with
death itself, in shadowy experiments beyond the realms of medical
ethics. They call on Hugh to witness an event both extraordinary and
terrifying.
Years later, Hugh has occasion to return to his student digs and the
familiar surroundings resurrect peculiar and unpleasant memories of
these unnatural events, the true horror of which only slowly becomes
apparent.
Susan Hill is a prize-winning novelist, having been awarded the
Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys awards, as well as
having been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She wrote Mrs de Winter,
the best-selling sequel to Rebecca, and the ghost story The Woman in
Black, which was adapted for the stage and became a great success in
the West End.
Her books include a collection of exquisite short stories, The Boy Who
Taught the Beekeeper to Read, and the highly successful crime novel
series about the detective Simon Serrailler. Susan Hill lives in
Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing firm, Long Barn
Books.
