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The Woman in Black

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The Woman in Black	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Woman in Black is a 1983 English horror novel by Susan Hill.The story centers on Arthur Kipps, a young London solicitor who is sent by his employer to the small market town of Crythin Gifford on the northeastern coast of England to settle the estate of the recently-departed Mrs Alice Drablow. The deceased was an elderly and reclusive widow who lived alone in Eel Marsh House, situated on a desolate island that is inaccessible for most of the day as the rising tide floods the causeway connecting it to the mainland.Oh, and as Kipps soon learns, the place is haunted by the ghost of one Jennet Humfrye, Mrs Drablow's sister and the mother of her adopted son (both of whom had perished in a horrible accident on the marshes years earlier). Whenever her apparition is seen, a child dies.There have been several adaptations, including a (still-running) 1989 stage adaptation, a 1989 ITV television version, two different Radio Drama versions by The BBC, and a 2012 feature film from Hammer Films.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The stage play has a different slant: in order to keep the budget low and to be able to do it as a two-hander play, it is instead portrayed as an elderly Kipps employing an actor to help him get the story across to his family. Emphasis on two.The play has been running for more than 20 years at the Fortune Theatre, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theatre), as well as the second longest-running play in all of the West End, after The Mousetrap. This play is a favourite of school drama trips, making sure the audience usually has a group of easily startled kids who will scream in all the right places...The 2012 film stars Daniel Radcliffe. Coincidentally, the 1989 telefilm starred Radcliffe's onscreen Harry Potter father Adrian Rawlins.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })
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The Woman in Black / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Mrs Drablow's death is why Kipps is sent to Crythin Gifford in the first place.
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The Woman in Black / int_2bbe31c9	type	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
The Woman in Black / int_2bbe31c9	comment	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: The WIB; the face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge. In the theatre version, she appears to the actor, who reveals that he has a wife and son, similarly to Kipps before they died, and asks Kipps who the young woman playing the ghost was. Kipps saw no young woman. The play ends as the actor claps his hand to his mouth in horror, then runs offstage...
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The Woman in Black / int_35543514	type	Just Eat Gilligan
The Woman in Black / int_35543514	comment	Just Eat Gilligan: Kipps has to review all of Alice Drablow's documents, a task that will take several days at least. This apparently necessitates him staying in the creepy haunted house over several nights to do so... instead of, for example, reviewing said documents in the relative safety of the town.
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The Woman in Black / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Woman in Black / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: After all, we know at the beginning of the novel that Arthur was widowed in his early twenties.
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The Woman in Black / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Woman in Black / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Arthur and his first wife Stella return to London after his ordeal and end up having a child, Joseph. A year later, they attend a fair and Jospeh points to a pony trap, indicating he wants to take a ride on it. He and Stella get on the trap while Arthur watches on. However, as they return, he notices the Woman in Black hiding behind a tree. Unable to warn the trap in time, Arthur watches as it veers off the path and smashes into a tree. Stella is badly injured, but little Joseph dies instantly when he's flung into the tree. Stella dies from her injuries months later. Talk about a downer!
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The Woman in Black / int_5f8ddb2c	type	Corpse Land
The Woman in Black / int_5f8ddb2c	comment	Corpse Land: The town of Crythin Gifford and surroundings is a minor version; a haunted house, swamp, and town all in close proximity to each other.
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The Woman in Black / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Woman in Black / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: The ghost has this expression on her face at all times.
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The Woman in Black / int_6459cc02	type	I See Dead People
The Woman in Black / int_6459cc02	comment	I See Dead People: In the novel, the ghost is visible only to Arthur. Curiously, the pony at the end of the book also seems to see the Woman and Spider definitely hears her.
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The Woman in Black / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Woman in Black / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Arthur finds the Woman in Black's face creepier and creepier each time he sees it; at best, it looks near-skeletal. Then he notices the expression of boundless malevolence on her face...
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The Woman in Black / int_7d93efb	type	Stellar Name
The Woman in Black / int_7d93efb	comment	Stellar Name: Kipps' fiancée.
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The Woman in Black / int_8aad574b	type	Ghost Story
The Woman in Black / int_8aad574b	comment	Ghost Story: Obviously, but the novel's Framing Device has Arthur's family sharing ghost stories on Christmas Eve. When they press upon Arthur to tell one, he refuses and leaves them in agitation, then resolves to write down his own horrific past experience in the hopes of "exorcising" it from his memory.
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The Woman in Black / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
The Woman in Black / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: At the climax of the book, Jennet forces Arthur to feel all the negative emotions she did when her son died.
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The Woman in Black / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
The Woman in Black / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: The "sea frets", sudden thick mists that roll in around the marshes and limit visibility.
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The Woman in Black / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
The Woman in Black / int_9abe931d	comment	Quicksand Sucks: Played straight. In the novel, it makes a "horrid sucking, draining sound"; Arthur goes for a dip in an attempt to rescue Mr. Daily's dog Spider and attributes a malevolent dragging sensation to it. In the film, he goes in to Recover Nathaniel Drablow's body. In all versions, it's the cause of Nathaniel Drablow's death and what precipitates Jennet to haunt the town.
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The Woman in Black / int_9b86a4f8	type	Nostalgic Narrator
The Woman in Black / int_9b86a4f8	comment	Nostalgic Narrator: Well, perhaps "nostalgic" isn't the best word, but the novel's main narrative is told by an older Arthur Kipps looking back on events from years earlier.
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The Woman in Black / int_aaa35901	type	My Card
The Woman in Black / int_aaa35901	comment	My Card: Samuel Daily gives his to Arthur after their first meeting, telling him to call should he need any assistance while in town.
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The Woman in Black / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
The Woman in Black / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Jennet Humfrye's letters to Alice Drablow, which conclude on a note of dire Foreshadowing.
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The Woman in Black / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: All over the place in the stage play. Audiences regularly shriek out loud, and that's kind of the point. Used frequently and very effectively in the film version.
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The Woman in Black / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: Type B.
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The Woman in Black / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Woman in Black / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Arthur Kipps" was the name of the protagonist in H. G. Wells' novel Kipps.
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The Woman in Black / int_eabb8130	type	Swamps Are Evil
The Woman in Black / int_eabb8130	comment	Swamps Are Evil: a marsh, actually (for those unclear of the difference, a swamp is a wet-land in a forest while a marsh is a wet-land on the border of a lake or ocean, with lots of grass and salty soil), but it is haunted and directly caused two deaths (three if you count the horse) and indirectly caused a whole bunch of others (because of the ghosts unliving there).
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The Woman in Black / int_f9439c84	type	Haunted House
The Woman in Black / int_f9439c84	comment	Haunted House: Eel Marsh.
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The Woman in Black / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Spider.
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