Waters Keeps the Creeps Coming in 'Little Stranger'

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A reviewer probably shouldn't admit this, but while making my way through Sarah Waters' new novel, "The Little Stranger," I'd sometimes forget to take notes, so hypnotized was I by the spell of this completely absorbing book. "The Little Stranger" is a ghost story full of mystery, but it wasn't simply a matter of finding out what happened next; I wanted to linger in that fictional world, page by page, chapter by chapter.

Waters has been nominated twice for the Man Booker Prize, one of literature's highest honors, after first gaining a cult following for novels such as "Tipping the Velvet" and "Affinity," clever mash- ups of Victorian melodrama and lesbian fiction. With …