The Man in the Picture
  • Published: 9 January 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529913408
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99

The Man in the Picture

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9 Jan 2024
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12 Oct 2023
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A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter's night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it.

To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty...
  • Published: 9 January 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529913408
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Susan Hill

Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black has been running in London’s West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

www.susanhill.org.uk

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