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The Mist In The Mirror [Paperback]

Susan Hill (Author)
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Publication Date: 2 Sep 1999

Orphaned at the age of five and sent away from England to Africa, Sir James Monmouth has spent most of his life travelling, following the footsteps of his childhood hero, the explorer Conrad Vane. He returns to England one dark and rainy night with the intention of discovering more, not just about himself, but the early life of the explorer.

Warned against travelling this path, Sir James becomes yet more determined to unravel the mysteries of the past - but who is the mysterious little boy who haunts his every step, and why can only he hear the chilling scream and the desperate sobbing?

(19990723)

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New Ed edition (2 Sep 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099284367
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099284369
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 1.4 x 20 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 31,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"The Mist in the Mirror has all the ingredients of a classic ghost story, with an elegance that goes beyond the genre" (Daily Mail )

"Psychologically astute and disturbing in its ambiguities, its impossible to resist the manipulative power of this finely constructed tale" (Financial Times )

"Not just a completely absorbing and thoroughly frightening read, but a tremendously intelligent one...this is a book well worth losing a foggy night's sleep over" (Literary Review )

"This is a novel for readers who enjoy a good tale that is well told, and who find that nothing chills the blood as effectively as an old-fashioned, chain-rattling ghostly villain" (The Times )

"Thoroughly frightening" (Daily Telegraph )

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From the author of The Woman in Black comes a deeply disturbing and enjoyably terrifying ghost story about a villainous exporer and the mysteries that enshroud him.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A chilling read 6 Dec 2006
By MYSTICSHAZ
Format:Paperback
The first Susan Hill book I ever read was the Woman in Black. Her talent for gripping the reader from the word go is, in my opinion, unrivalled. The Mist in the Mirror is one of those books you just can't put down and you become totally absorbed in the story from the very first page. The characters and the scenes just come alive. Each chapter is more un-nerving than the last - it's one of the most chilling books you'll ever read.

I agree with some of the other reviewers about the ending - you do feel a little cheated, but the book is so enthralling, it more than makes up for it.
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64 of 69 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars I wanted more!!! 24 Sep 2006
By Lilly Penhaligon TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
As soon as I found out that Susan Hill had written another ghost story, I literally ran to my nearest Waterstones to grab a copy. Having been well and truly terrified to the core by the Woman In Black, I couldn't wait to experience the same thrills which I expected from the Mist in the Mirror. In some ways, I wasn't disappointed. Susan Hill has the uncanny knack of being able to describe in vivid (and some disturbing) the stuff of nightmares. I felt trapped in the claustrophobic, winding, pitch black halls of the old school in Alton, felt genuinely unnerved by the account of what happened to the protagonist, James Monmouth, when he visited the Old Library in the dead of night (NO WAY would I have gone there at that time, not for a million pounds) and felt completely uneasy at the descriptions of the malevolent presence and the feeling of being watched. Truly scary, unnerving stuff. Fans of gory horror beware, this book relies completely on the supernatural - there is no gore. Hill is the master ghost story-teller - she knows exactly how to prey on the all the senses and knows how to unravel a mystery slowly but surely - this is what makes books like the Mist in the Mirror and the Woman in Black completely addictive - you will keep reading even though the hairs on the back of your neck will be standing from page one.

The only reason this gets a 4 and not a 5 was because of the ending. There were too many unanswered questions - who WAS the old woman he saw at the Cross Keys Inn? What WAS IT behind the curtain adn the locked door that terrified Monmouth so much that he dare not look? What was the secret of the dreaded mirror and why did it appear in several of the places that Monmouth visited... I needed an extra 100 pages to tie up these loose ends - at the moment I feel like I'm still on teh edge of the mystery...

If you like supernatural/ghost stories that rely on building up a sense of creeping horror rather than over-the-top descriptions of ghostly apparitions, then this is the book for you.

If you would like a more complete, yet thoroughly frightening scarefest - read the Woman in Black (see my review).
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Oddly insubstantial with not enough body 3 May 2010
By Roman Clodia TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
James Monmouth returns to Britain after a childhood spent abroad with a slightly mysterious Guardian. He knows nothing about his family, and he has an obsession with a travel writer called Conrad Vine. But from the moment he steps onto British soil, he is increasingly haunted by mysterious occurences and his attempts to understand them lead him closer a secret evil...

There's clearly a fine line in the 'literary' ghost story between creepy ambiguity and tying down every end - but I feel that in this book Susan Hill hasn't quite got it right. She has lots of set-pieces (the ghostly boy, the mysterious woman behind the curtain, the mirror) but then she leaves them dangling as if she's forgotten about them.

This is undoubtedly fluently written and very atmospheric but Monmouth himself is just another typical ghost-story-narrator from tradition. I felt that there are just too many holes in the tale to make it an instant classic (when did the obsession with Vane start, for example?), and the whole thing just fizzles out in the end.

This is not a bad read but it is sadly unsatisfying.
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3.0 out of 5 stars its ok
After seeing the play Women in black, i thiught i would try reading this book, there is nothing wrong with it, its just not mu kind of book.
Published 29 days ago by kim
2.0 out of 5 stars The Mist in the Mirror
To be honest I struggle to think of a book that I found more boring than The Mist in the Mirror. There was just nothing here to interest me at all, the story dragged and for the... Read more
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Another suspenseful masterpiece by Susan Hill. Its an intriguing story full of secrets to be uncovered and the twist at the end is spine tingling.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great ghost story
I love Susan Hill's ghost storied and this was as good as any of the others. If you like the Victorian spooky story genre then this will suit your tastes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The mist in the Mirror
This was different once i got into it it was good i did enjoy the story in the end all was well
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5.0 out of 5 stars Scary stuff
Susan Hill has managed to create a very chilling read here. Very good sense of menace. If you liked ' the Woman in Black' you will certainly like this. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars There are better Susan Hill ghost stories...
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Published 4 months ago by YeahYeahNoh
3.0 out of 5 stars Good read
The story is well written as with all Susan Hill's books. It was gripping from the start, however I felt that the ending was a little disappointing and left too many unanswered... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars An Exercise in Anticlimaxes
The Mist in the Mirror is the fourth ghost story I've read by Susan Hill and while I usually try to judge a book on its own merit, it's hard not to think that perhaps the author... Read more
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