After reading The Woman in Black, it is possible that you may want to begin a 'trail of reading': other novels by Susan Hill; more ghost stories; more from the Gothic genre; horror. Here are a few suggestions for what you might find interesting:
Susan Hill
If you are interested in reading more by Susan Hill, then you will be delighted to learn that she has written plenty. Here is her website. This page links to her ghost stories. I'm the King of the Castle is often taught in schools and Strange Meeting is also very well-known. Fans of Rebecca may be interested in Susan Hill's sequel, Mrs de Winter.
Ghost stories
The Lovely Bones by Anne Sebold
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
MR James's short stories
The Signalman by Charles Dickens
Gothic novels
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Horror
This website has some good tips for horror. Patrick Ness has also written some recommendations for unsuitable books here.
