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I always try to read at least one "haunted" book around Halloween, and my choice this year was Susan Hill's The Woman in Black, which I greatly enjoyed. Last year I read another novel by her, The Mist in the Mirror, which I also liked. For a modern writer, she does an excellent job of invoking spooky, atmospheric, fog-shrouded 19th- and early 20th-century English settings.
The Woman in Black was adapted into a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe a few years ago. I tried watching it after I'd finished the book, but I gave up on it halfway through. It was wretched.
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