Ghost Novel Review: The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill David R. Godine, 138 pages I do a writing assignment with my students called “Which is Better—the Book or the Movie?” Doesn’t matter if it’s a black-and-white classic or a Technicolor blockbuster, my students invariably plant themselves on the side of the book. (I don’t know if the knowledge that I’m a writer enters into their logic, so we should probably factor in the suck-up component.) Ironically, I don’t always agree with…