The Travelling Bag – And other Ghostly Stories – Susan Hill

This is Susan Hill at her best, telling characteristically creepy and surprising tales of thwarted ambition, terrifying revenge and supernatural stirrings that will leave you wide-awake long into the night. (Citation book cover)

Content – Back cover

From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the otherwordly in this unforgettable collection of ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

Theme and Genre

I normally do not read short stories, because I prefer novels. But this collection of ghost stories caught my eyes and definitely did not disappoint me.

Five gripping stories, written in the best tradition of the well-known Gothic stories and novels of the 18^th and 19^th century, kept me reading, wondering and sharing the thrills with the protagonists. Susan Hill knows perfectly how to develop stories with hints to supernatural and ghostly events, offering almost logical explanations to the reader, but each story finishing with new twists, facts, that are no longer explainable.

Conclusion

For readers that enjoy a really good ghost story, safely nestled up in a wing chair on a dark November evening.