Abstract
This chapter considers how Susan Hill’s revival of the British ghost story, The Woman in Black (1983), suddenly reawoke many readers to the power of the Gothic through the ghost story to reveal the horrible secrets of the past and their deadly legacy in the present. This chapter shows how contemporary women’s ghost stories rewrite nineteenth and twentieth-century histories by looking at ghostings in the work of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, and Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger. The author examines how in the contemporary period with horror houses, stately homes, ghosts behind walls, playroom deaths, women in black, and little strangers, women’s ghost stories can be used to indict oppressive narratives through exposing and or rewriting the past and its constraining versions of gendered roles for women.
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