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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Dolly: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill

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  A deliciously creepy novella, just in time for Halloween, makes for atmospheric and sinister reading.

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  The Small Hand by Susan Hill

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  You've got to give it to her, Hill is a master of the spooky story. One night, driving home through the autumn twilight, the lonely hero of this novella discovers a ruined house. While he's standing there alone in the growing darkness, the birds go silent and a small, cool hand slips into his.

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  I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill

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  Ostensibly a children's book about how a young boy and his mother move into the isolated Victorian country house of a man and his son. Yet, the sinister and downright chilling relationship between the two boys is astonishingly powerful for any reader. Inspired by a summer Susan Hill spent living in Wiltshire listening to the farmer calling to his cows by day and the silence of the countryside by night.