It seems that the aunt and the doll are not too happy about being mistreated. Memories surface regarding the wish for a certain type of doll and receiving another one instead. So they return to the house of their childhood. Now, the cousins are adults and have been informed their elderly aunt has passed away. The second story is 'Dolly', and deals with a pair of cousins who are forced, as children, for one reason or another, to live with their aunt. He is obsessed with relocating the house and putting to rest the reason he is being haunted. The sensation of feeling this child's hand in his begins to occur from time to time and starts to impact the man's life. It is at this time he feels a small hand in his. He knows it's unlikely anyone lives there, but he approached the house, hoping someone could give him directions. Our dealer sees a white house, with gardens, once beautiful, but now unkempt. The first story is 'The Small Hand', and is about a rare and antique book dealer that takes a wrong turn. This book has two novella length ghost stories by Susan Hill.

Small Hand and Dolly by Susan Hill is a 2013 Random House publication. And when Leonora's birthday wish for a beautiful doll is denied, she unleashes a furious rage which will haunt Edward for years afterward. With him is his spoiled, spiteful cousin, Leonora. In Dolly, orphan Edward Cayley is sent to spend the summer with his forbidding Aunt Kestrel at Iyot House, her decaying home in the damp, lonely fens. Plagued by nightmares, he returns with the intention of figuring out its mysteries, only to be troubled by further, increasingly sinister visits. Approaching the door, he is startled to feel the unmistakable sensation of a small cold hand creeping into his own, almost as though a child had taken hold of it. In The Small Hand, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn and stumbles across a derelict Edwardian house with a lush, overgrown garden. Two chilling ghost stories from the author of The Woman in Black, both set in crumbling English houses that are haunted by the spirits of thwarted children.

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