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|title=The Man in the Picture

|sort=Man in the Picture, The

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781846685446

|pages=160

|publisher=Profile Books

|date=September 2012

|summary=Another ghost story from Ms Hill, featuring a male testimony regarding inheriting a connection to evil – how does she keep doing it, and doing it so well?

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There is a theory regarding ghosts that they are projected recordings from the very brickwork of buildings – that 'stone tapes' can replay scenes or characters of heightened emotion so that people can see the vestige of what went before. What if something a bit more animated than a building – a lively, realistic oil painting – can also convey collected recorded instances of such strong feelings - feelings such as mortal terror? It would be like Dorian Gray's portrait, recording all the horrors, keeping them intact in one place – but would it be the cause or the effect?

[[The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson]] has a tenuous link to Susan Hill, but has been a very successful story of evil that you may well enjoy.

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