A Ghost Story
Published: 10, October 1983
Author: Susan Hill
Genres: Classic, Fiction, Ghosts, Horror, Literary, Occult, Supernatural, Suspense, Thrillers
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Summary:
The story is told through the eyes of Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer who used to work for Mr. Bentley. On Christmas Eve, he spends time at home with his second wife, Esmé, and four stepchildren, who are exchanging ghost stories. When he is asked to share a story, he becomes agitated and leaves the room, and he chooses to write about his horrible events from several years ago in the belief that doing so will exorcise them from his mind.
Kipps is summoned to Crythin Gifford, a tiny market town on the northeast coast of England, many years ago, when still a junior solicitor for Bentley, to attend Mrs. Alice Drablow's funeral and settle her inheritance. Kipps is hesitant to leave his fiancée, Stella, but anxious to escape the gloomy London fog. Mrs. Drablow, an old and reclusive widow, lived alone in the lonely and isolated Eel Marsh House.
The residence is located on Nine Lives Causeway. It is isolated off from the mainland at high tide, surrounded only by marshes and sea frets. Kipps soon realizes that Alice Drablow is more than he first imagined. At the funeral, he notices a lady dressed in black with a pale face and dark eyes, who is being watched silently by a group of youngsters.
Over the course of many days, he undergoes an increasingly horrific sequence of inexplicable noises, unsettling happenings, and visits by the Woman in Black while sifting through Mrs. Drablow's documents at Eel Marsh House. On one of these occasions, he hears the screams of a little kid and his maid coming from the marshes, followed by the sound of a horse and carriage in trouble.
Most individuals in Crythin Gifford are hesitant to share anything about Mrs. Drablow and the mystery woman in black. Kipps' attempts to discover the truth elicit painful and frightening emotions. He discovers from different sources that Mrs. Drablow's sister, Jennet Humfrye, gave birth to a kid named Nathaniel. She was obliged to surrender the child to her sister because she was unmarried. Mrs. Drablow and her husband adopted the kid, insisting that he did not know Jennet was his mother.
The screams heard by Kipps were those of Nathaniel's spirit. Jennet left for a year. When she realized she couldn't be apart from her son for long, she agreed to stay at Eel Marsh House with him as long as she never disclosed her actual identity to him. She had secretly prepared to flee the house with her son. Jennet watched helplessly from the window as a pony and trap transporting the kid across the causeway became lost and fell into the marshes, killing everybody on board.
Jennet returned to haunt Eel Marsh House and the town of Crythin Gifford as the evil Woman in Black after her death. A glimpse of the Woman in Black, according to local legend, foreshadowed the death of a child.
Kipps returns to London after some time (but still years before the commencement of the narrative), marries Stella, has a kid of his own, and attempts to put the events of Crythin Gifford behind him. Kipps encounters the Woman in Black at a carnival while his wife and kid are enjoying a pony and trap ride. She walks in front of the horse, startling it and forcing it to run, crashing the carriage into a tree, killing the kid instantly and seriously wounding Stella, who dies ten months later.
Kipps concludes his remembrance by saying, "They've requested my tale. I've told you. Enough."
Rating: 85/100
Recommended: 90/100 Yes.
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