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The Small Hand
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by Susan Hill (Author) (edit contributors)

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Late one summer evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn. He stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house, and compelled by curiosity, approaches the door. Standing before the entrance, he feels the unmistakable sensation of a small... read more

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Snow is on his way back from visiting some wealthy clients when he gets lost driving around narrow country lanes. He takes a wrong turn and discovers a dilapidated, seemingly abandoned country house. Drawn by curiosity – or something darker – he gets out of his car and goes to explore the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Snow is on his way back from visiting some wealthy clients when he gets lost driving around narrow country lanes. He takes a wrong turn and discovers a dilapidated, seemingly abandoned country house. Drawn by curiosity – or something darker – he gets out of his car and goes to explore the overgrown gardens which, according to a rotting and broken sign, were once open to the public. Standing there, surveying the decay and desolation, Snow feels a small hand creeping into his own: "It felt cool and its fingers curled themselves trustingly into my palm and rested there, and the small thumb and forefinger tucked my own thumb between them." There is, of course, no child there. Snow is quite alone.

And thus a haunting begins, but unusually it's not tied to its initial location. The small hand creeps more and more often into Snow's, and what starts as a relatively benign phenomenon becomes increasingly alarming and dreadful.

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It was a little before nine o'clock, the sun was setting into a bank of smoky violet cloud and I had lost my way.

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  1. Susan Hill (Author)

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