Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Woman in Black


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I confess I only decided to read this because of the movie trailer. Thankfully, it was short and easy or I may not have made it through. This is a typical, albeit uncomplicated victorian type ghost story. I think it was supposed to be scary. I didn't find it very scary. I haven't seen the movie but I've heard it wasn't scary either.

I did have a hard time imagining there was enough in this story to make a movie. It seemed to me more of a short story than a novel.

It was classic in that the ghost is the woman scorned and the location is an isolated old house recently left empty by the death of it's elderly inhabitant.

I enjoyed it for what it was but can't say that I loved it. It was a little too predicatable and simple for my taste.