The Man in the Picture
Published on 12. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-5299-1340-8 (ISBN)
Description
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...
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...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
98 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-1340-8 (9781529913408)
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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. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. 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 is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.