Why a Booktrail?
1800s – 1950s: The Susan Hill spooky tour of mystery and more
The Travelling Bag
What you need to know before your trail
From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.
In the title story, on a murky evening in a club off St James, a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building. A lonely boy makes a friend in ‘Boy Number 21’, but years later is forced to question the very nature of that friendship. ‘Alice Baker’ tells the story of a mysterious new office worker who is accompanied by a lingering smell of decay. And in ‘The Front Room’, a devoutly Christian mother tries to protect her children from the evil influence of their grandmother, both when she is alive and afterwards.
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: St James' Park - The Tabor
- B: The London Library
- C: Cambridge- university
Travel Guide
The most unsettling of places
The places in this series of short stories are vague but all the more creepy because of that!We’ve put London library and St James on the map since this is where story one is focused and the spires of Cambridge can be intimidating in the dark!
The Travelling Bag is about a psychic private investigator at his London club near St James
Boy Number Twenty-One – A boy at a boarding school who finds his only friend when a new boy arrives. But he’s not there for long
With Alice Baker – Inside an office in the 1950s
The Front Room – The most modern of the stories set in modern times and it doesn’t bode well for the world as we live in it now
Streetview Maps
A) London - St James
B) London - The London Library
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Travelling Bag
Destination: London, England Author/Guide: Susan Hill Departure Time: 1800s – 1950s
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