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The Small Hand and Dolly: Two Novels

✍️ Susan Hill
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🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 📅 2013 📖 280 pages 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780345806659

📝 Description: The Small Hand and Dolly: Two Novels

"The Small Hand was originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books, London, in 2010, and Dolly was originally published in Great Britain by Profile Books, London, in 2012"--Title page verso.

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Susan Hill’s double feature brings together two chilling ghost stories that rely on a slow-burning, classic atmosphere rather than cheap shocks. In The Small Hand and Dolly, Hill crafts an unsettling mood of lingering dread, where quiet landscapes and ordinary lives are steadily invaded by the past. The fear here is atmospheric and psychological, creeping up on the reader through subtle unease and a growing sense of inescapable doom. It is an ideal pick for readers who appreciate traditional British ghost stories and prefer quiet, elegant tension over overt gore.
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Susan Hill’s double feature brings together two chilling ghost stories that rely on a slow-burning, classic atmosphere rather than cheap shocks. In The Small Hand and Dolly, Hill crafts an unsettling mood of lingering dread, where quiet landscapes and ordinary lives are steadily invaded by the past. The fear here is atmospheric and psychological, creeping up on the reader through subtle unease and a growing sense of inescapable doom. It is an ideal pick for readers who appreciate traditional British ghost stories and prefer quiet, elegant tension over overt gore.

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