The Little Stranger

Authors: Sarah Waters

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A good ghost story should have you behaving irrationally: stealing the night-light out of your child's room, or unable to sleep until you put the book in question in the next room. "The Little Stranger" is a very good ghost story, full of muted horror. An English doctor in a small post-WWII town becomes acquainted with the local gentry family: a gracious matriarch, her war-shocked son, and her capable daughter, all living in the decaying but beautiful Hundreds Hall. The family and the house exer

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t an irresistable fascination, especially when some malicious presence in the house begins picking at the family members one by one. This is no blood-drenched sensation story; the sense of dread builds slowly through the smallest of actions - a shattered mirror, a dog bite, a locked door - to climaxes of shocking violence. Is the presence in the house simply malicious, or does it have a specific target? And what catalyst brought it into the world to begin with? The answer will shock you.

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