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The man in the picture, a ghost story, Susan Hill

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The man in the picture, a ghost story, Susan Hill

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The man in the picture

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Susan Hill

Sub title

a ghost story

Summary

An extraordinary ghost story from a modern master. In the apartment of Oliver's old professor at Cambridge, there is a painting on the wall, a mysterious depiction of masked revelers at the Venice carnival. On this cold winter's night, the old professor has decided to reveal the painting's eerie secret. The dark art of the Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty

Target audience

adult

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