Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose.
The Woman in Black is a 1983 gothic horror novel by English writer Susan Hill about a mysterious spectre that haunts a small English town. A television film adaptation with a screenplay by Nigel Kneale, was produced in 1989. In 2012, another film adaptation was released starring Daniel Radcliffe.
