![]() ![]() The house is situated on Nine Lives Causeway. On his train ride there, he met a fairly wealthy landowner, Samuel Daily. ![]() Drablow was an elderly and reclusive widow who lived alone in the desolate and secluded Eel Marsh House. Kipps is reluctant to leave his fiancée, Stella, but eager to get away from the dreary London fog. ![]() Many years earlier, whilst still a junior solicitor for Bentley, Kipps is summoned to Crythin Gifford, a small market town on the north east coast of England, to attend the funeral of Mrs. When he is asked to tell a story, he becomes irritated and leaves the room, and decides to write his horrific experiences several years in the past in the hopes that doing so will exorcise them from his memory. One Christmas Eve he is at home with his second wife Esmé and four stepchildren, who are sharing ghost stories. The novel is narrated by Arthur Kipps, the young lawyer who formerly worked for Mr. ![]() It is the second longest-running play in the history of the West End, after The Mousetrap. The book has also been adapted into a stage play by Stephen Mallatratt. In 2012, another film adaption was released, starring Daniel Radcliffe. A television film based on the story, also called The Woman in Black, was produced in 1989, with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale. The plot concerns a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town. The Woman in Black is a 1983 gothic horror novel by English writer Susan Hill. ![]()
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