When Kipps mentions the reason for his visit, Daily grows quiet and cryptically tells him that he can call on him should he need anything. On the last leg of the railway journey, Kipps meets Mr. The area around Crythin Gifford is surrounded by sea and is prone to sudden, blinding fogs, which can prove dangerous given the presence of countless marshes. Alice Drablow, to look through her personal papers and sort out anything of importance before the property is sold off. There he must go to Eel Marsh House, home of the recently deceased Mrs. The job sends him north of London to the small village of Crythin Gifford. Bentley, gives him a special assignment, he is eager for the chance to prove himself to the firm. He is engaged to be married to his love, Stella, so when his boss, Mr. Several decades earlier, Kipps is an up-and-coming solicitor in his early twenties. However, he resolves that none should ever read them until after his death. Haunted by dark memories from his past, he decides that the best way to exorcize these memories is by writing them down.

However, when his family turns the lights low to take turns telling ghost stories, Kipps leaves the room in a huff. Arthur Kipps is an old man enjoying Christmas Eve with his wife, stepchildren, and step-grandchildren. The Woman in Black, written in the traditional style of a gothic novel, has been adapted into a television film, a stage play, and a feature film. Set in an unspecified time in England, Susan Hill’s horror novella, The Woman in Black (1983), follows Arthur Kipps, a solicitor in his early twenties, as he is sent to a small village to clean up the affairs of a recently-deceased woman, uncovering a horror that will haunt him all his days.

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