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Carrie Summary

Stephen King, Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Occult, Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller

Carrie

Published: 5, April 1974
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Classic, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Occult, Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller

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Summary

Carietta "Carrie" White is a 16-year-old girl in the Maine community of Chamberlain in 1979 who is mocked for her drab look and odd religious beliefs fostered by her tyrannical mother, Margaret. 

Carrie gets her first period one day while showering in the ladies' locker room after physical education class. 

Carrie is afraid since she has no concept of menstruation because her mother, who despises everything intimate, has never told her about it. 

While Carrie fears she is dying, her classmates ridicule her and hurl tampons and sanitary napkins at her, headed by an affluent, popular girl called Chris Hargensen. 

Rita Desjardin, the gym instructor, assists Carrie in cleaning up and attempts to explain. 

Carrie practices her odd ability to control items from a distance on the walk home. She only remembers utilizing this talent once, when she was three years old, and caused stones to fall from the sky near her house. 

When Carrie returns home, Margaret accuses her of wrongdoing and confines her in a closet so she may pray.

The next day, Desjardin chastises the girls who tormented Carrie and assigns them a week of detention; Chris refuses to leave and is punished by suspension and exclusion from the prom. 

Chris vows to get vengeance on Carrie after a failed attempt to regain her rights through her impactful father. 

Sue Snell, another popular girl who teased Carrie in the locker room, is embarrassed by her actions and persuades her boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to invite Carrie to the prom instead. 

Carrie is skeptical but accepts and begins preparing a prom outfit for herself. Meanwhile, Chris convinces her boyfriend Billy Nolan and his crew of boys to acquire two buckets of pig blood in preparation for rigging the prom queen contest in Carrie's favor.

Carrie's prom goes well at first: Tommy's classmates are welcoming, and Tommy discovers that he is drawn to Carrie as a friend. 

Chris's plot to rig the election works and Carrie and Tommy are crowned prom queen and king. However, right before the coronation, Chris comes in from the outside and pours pig blood over Carrie and Tommy's heads. 

Tommy gets knocked out by one of the buckets and dies as a result of severe blood loss. The audience laughs as they see Carrie bathed in blood. Carrie storms out of the building, embarrassed.

Carrie recalls her telekinesis and resolves to get vengeance on her tormentors. Using her abilities, she totally closes the gym, triggers the sprinkler system, electrocuting several of her classmates unwittingly, and starts a fire that finally ignites the school's fuel tanks, resulting in a catastrophic explosion that destroys the building. 

Electric shock, fire, or smoke kills anyone present at the prom. Carrie, in a fit of wrath, thwarts any approaching firefighting attempt by opening the hydrants near the school, then smashes gas stations and breaks power lines on her way home. 

Her telekinetic talents are unleashed on the town, demolishing multiple buildings and killing hundreds of people. As she does so, she sends out a telepathic message, informing everyone in town that the devastation was caused by her, even if they don't know who she is.

Carrie goes back home to confront Margaret, who believes Carrie has been possessed by Satan and must be slain. 

Margaret informs her that her pregnancy was perhaps the product of marital rape. Carrie murders her by mentally stopping her heart after she stabs her in the shoulder with a kitchen knife. 

Carrie, mortally wounded, travels to the roadhouse where she was conceived. She notices Chris and Billy departing after learning about the devastation from one of Billy's schoolmates. 

After Billy tries to run Carrie over, she mentally takes control of his car and drives it into a wall, killing both Billy and Chris.

Sue, who has been following Carrie's "broadcast," discovers her lying in the parking lot, bleeding from the knife wound. 

They had a brief telepathic discussion. Carrie had assumed that Sue and Tommy had set her up for the prank, but she now sees that Sue is innocent and has never harbored any ill will against her. She forgives Sue and then passes away, mourning her mother.

A state of emergency is announced, and the survivors begin arrangements to move. Despite the government's commitment of funds for restoring worker neighborhoods, Chamberlain predicts desolation. 

Desjardin and the school's principal blame themselves for what transpired and resign from teaching. 

Sue writes and publishes a book based on her experiences. A "White Committee" investigation on paranormal talents indicates that there are and will be others like Carrie. 

An Appalachian lady eagerly writes to her sister about her young daughter's telekinetic skills and recalls their grandmother, who possessed comparable abilities.


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The Castle of Otranto Summary

The Castle of Otranto Summary

The Castle of Otranto

Published: 1764

Author: Horace Walpole

Genres: 90/100, Classic, Fiction, Gothic, History, Horror, Literary, Literature, Occult, Supernatural


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Summary

The narrative of Manfred, the castle's lord, and his family are told in The Castle of Otranto. On the wedding day of his ailing son Conrad and Princess Isabella, the story begins. Conrad, however, is crushed to death by a massive helmet that descends on him from above just before the wedding.

This strange occurrence is all the more concerning in light of an old prophecy that "the castle and lordship of Otranto should depart from the present line after the true owner has grown too large to occupy it." Manfred, fearful that Conrad's death may spell the end of his dynasty, decides to marry Isabella himself while divorcing his present wife, Hippolita, whom he believes has failed to produce him a legitimate heir owing to Conrad's frail condition before his untimely death.

Isabella, however, flees to a chapel with the help of a peasant called Theodore while Manfred seeks to marry her. While speaking with the monk Jerome, who insured Isabella's safety at the church, Manfred orders Theodore's killing. Jerome detects a marking below Theodore's shoulder and recognizes Theodore as his own son as Theodore removes his shirt to be executed.

Jerome cries out for his son's life, but Manfred tells him that he must choose between the princess and his son's life. They are interrupted by the sound of a trumpet and the arrival of knights from another realm, who want to transfer Isabella and the castle to her father, Fredric because Fredric has a better claim to it (another reason Manfred wishes to wed Isabella). As a result, the knights and Manfred set off on a quest to find Isabella.

Theodore, who had been imprisoned by Manfred in a tower, is set free by Manfred's daughter, Matilda. He dashes to the basement chapel, where he discovers Isabella. To protect her from Manfred, he hides her in a cave and shuts it, but he ends up battling one of the strange knights. The knight, who reveals out to be Isabella's father, Frederic, is seriously injured by Theodore. They all head up to the palace to figure things out after that. Frederic and Manfred establish an agreement to marry one other's daughters when they fall in love with Matilda. After being warned by an apparition of a skeleton, Frederic withdraws.

Manfred brings a knife into the chapel where Matilda is meeting Theodore, fearing Isabella is having a tryst with Theodore. He stabs Isabella, mistaking her for his own daughter. As Matilda dies, Theodore is revealed to be the actual prince of Otranto, forcing Manfred to repent. The prophecy is realized, as a gigantic ghostly apparition arrives, shattering the castle walls.

Manfred abdicates the principality and, together with Hippolita, retires to religion. Theodore is made prince of the castle's ruins and married to Isabella, who is the only person who genuinely understands his grief.

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Rosemary's Baby Summary

Rosemary's Baby

Published: 12, March 1967

Author: Ira Levin

Genres: American, Classics, Demonology & Satanism, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Occult, Suspense, Thrillers


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Summary:

Rosemary Woodhouse, a young woman with a failing actor husband, has recently moved into the Bramford, a historic Gothic Revival-style New York City apartment building. Guy has only had minor roles in theatrical productions such as Luther and Nobody Loves an Albatross, as well as a few TV advertisements. The couple is informed that Bramford has a shady past of witchcraft and murder, but they dismiss this. Guy wants to wait until his job is more established before starting a family, whereas Rosemary wants to start one right now.

Neighbors Rosemary and Guy are welcomed to the Bramford by Minnie and Roman Castevet, an eccentric old couple. Rosemary considers them intrusive and irritating, but Guy continues to pay them frequent visits.

Guy gets cast in the lead part in a new theatrical play when the lead actor falls blind. Guy surprisingly agrees with Rosemary that they should have their first child shortly after. Rosemary has a dream that night about a tumultuous sexual experience with a gigantic, monstrous beast with yellow eyes. Rosemary discovers claw marks on her breasts and crotch the next morning, which Guy dismisses as a hangnail. Rosemary is later informed that she is expecting a child.

Rosemary becomes very ill, but her excruciating pain and rapid weight loss are dismissed by others as hysteria. Minnie and her doctor feed her weird and nasty concoctions. Rosemary gets a strange desire for raw flesh as well.

Guy's performance in the play receives positive feedback and he goes on to play more important roles. Guy quickly starts talking about a Hollywood career.

Edward "Hutch" Hutchins, Rosemary's buddy, also gets ill inexplicably. Roman Castevets, the leader of a Satanic coven, had given Rosemary a warning, which led to her discovery. She believes her unborn child is being sought as a devilish sacrifice. Despite her growing conviction, she can't persuade anyone, especially Guy. Rosemary eventually finds the coven's true motivation for desiring her baby. He is the Antichrist, and his father is Satan.


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Pet Sematary Summary

Pet Sematary

Published: 14, November 1983

Author: Stephen King

Genres: Occult, Suspense, Ghost, Horror, Supernatural, Thrillers, Fiction, Animals, Zombie


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Summary:

A Chicago doctor, Louis Creed, has been named head of the University of Maine's campus health department. With his wife Rachel, his two young children, Ellie and Gage, and Ellie's cat, Winston Churchill "Church," he moves to a huge house in the little town of Ludlow. The family is in danger from the minute they arrive: Ellie injures her knee, and Gage gets stung by a bee. An old man called Jud Crandall, their new neighbor, arrives to assist them. He cautions Louis and Rachel of the fast vehicles that frequent the highway that passes by their house.

Louis and Jud immediately become friends. Louis considers Jud to be his adoptive father because his father died when he was three years old. Jud takes the Creeds for a stroll in the woods behind their house a few weeks after they move in. A well-kept road leads to a pet cemetery (on the sign, "sematary" is misspelled), where the town's youngsters bury their departed pets.

The next day, Louis and Rachel had a violent disagreement over the outing. Rachel is against addressing death, and she is concerned about Ellie's reaction to what she has seen at the "sematary." Rachel was devastated by the early loss of her sister, Zelda, from spinal meningitis, as it is revealed later—a subject that is brought up numerous times in flashbacks. Louis sympathizes with his wife and holds her parents responsible for her suffering by leaving Rachel alone with her sister when she died.

During the first week of school, Louis experiences a horrific encounter. Even though the two men are strangers, Victor Pascow, a student who died in an automobile accident, addresses his final words to Louis personally. Louis has a very vivid dream the night after Pascow died in which he sees Pascow, who brings him to the deadfall at the rear of the "sematary" and cautions him not to go any farther.

The next morning, Louis wakes up in bed, sure it was all a dream—until he discovers dried mud and pine needles on his feet and bedsheets. Nonetheless, Louis dismisses the dream as the result of his stress following Pascow's death, as well as his wife's remaining fears about death.

Jud's wife Norma had a near-fatal heart attack on Halloween, but owing to Louis's aid, she recovers quickly. After Church gets run over outside his home around Thanksgiving, Jud is grateful and decides to repay Louis. Rachel and the kids are in Chicago visiting Rachel's parents, but Louis is worried about telling Ellie the terrible news. Jud sympathizes with Louis and brings him to the "sematary," where Church is believed to be buried. Rather than staying there, Jud takes Louis on a journey to "the actual graveyard," an old burial site previously frequented by the Mikmaq Tribe.

On Jud's orders, Louis buries the cat there. Church returns home the next day; the usually vivacious and active cat has become ornery and, in Louis' words, "a bit dead." Church goes on a mouse and bird hunt, tearing them up but not eating them. Ellie also doesn't want him in her room at night since he stinks so terribly. Church has been revived, according to Jud, who once buried his dog there when he was younger. Louis, who is greatly troubled, begins to regret burying Church there.

Gage, two years old, is killed by a speeding vehicle a few months later. Louis, overcome with grief, considers using the burial place to bring his son back to life. Jud, sensing Louis' intention, tries to persuade him by telling him about Timmy Baterman, the last person to be revived by the burial place. During World War II, Timmy Baterman was killed in action. Timmy's remains were returned to the United States and his father Bill laid him to rest at the cemetery. Timmy reappeared; wreaking havoc on the residents of the community with information Jud claims he had no way of knowing.

Timmy was stopped by his father, Bill, who shot himself after killing Timmy and setting their house on fire. Jud claims that whatever returned was not Timmy, but a "devil" who had taken possession of his body. "Sometimes, dead is preferable," he says, adding that "the place has a power... its own wicked purpose," and that it may have been the cause of Gage's death because Jud exposed Louis to it.

Louis' sadness and remorse drive him to carry out his plan, despite Jud's warning and his own doubts. Gage's body is exhumed from his tomb and interred in the cemetery by Louis. Gage is revived, but he is not the same person he was before. He finds one of Louis' scalpels and murders both Jud and Rachel, now malevolent in both his words and deeds. Louis uses morphine injections from his medical supplies store to kill both Church and Gage.

Louis returns to the burial plot with his wife's body after burning down the Crandall house, believing that if he buries it faster than Gage's, the outcome would be different. Louis has aged physically as a result of all of these sad occurrences, having white hair and wrinkles. Steve Masterton, one of his coworkers, observes him heading into the woods with Rachel's body.

While terrified and concerned, Steve is also swayed by the burial ground's power and even contemplates assisting Louis in burying Rachel, but he leaves in horror and later relocates to St. Louis. Later, Louis is sitting alone inside, playing solitaire, when Rachel's reanimated body comes up behind him and places a chilly hand on his shoulder, rasping, “Darling."


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Legion Summary

Legion

Published: 1983

Author: William Peter Blatty

Book 2 of 2: The Exorcist Series

Genres: American, Classics, Fiction, Horror, Movie Tie-In, Mysteries, Occult, Police Procedural, Psychological, Supernatural


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Summary:

The narrative starts with the discovery of a twelve-year-old kid who has been killed and crucified on two rowing oars. Kinderman notices that the kid has been mangled in a manner similar to that of the victims of the Gemini Murderer, a serial killer who was shot to death by police while climbing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco twelve years ago. Later, a priest is assassinated in a confessional, his body displaying the mutilations of the ostensibly dead killer once more. However, the fingerprints found at the two crime locations are not identical.

More victims soon follow, including one of Kinderman's pals, Father Dyer (from The Exorcist), who is murdered at a hospital and beheaded. The mutilations of the Gemini Killer are once again visible.

Kinderman was led to the hospital's mental section, where his buddy was murdered. He discovers a lot of suspects here.

Dr. Freeman Temple is a psychiatrist who treats his patients with dismissive and even contempt.

Another doctor at the hospital is Dr. Vincent Amfortas. He is enigmatic and uncommunicative, and he appears apathetic toward everything since his wife's death.

The hospital has a lot of elderly patients who are suffering from senile dementia. Although the fingerprints of many senile patients have been recovered at crime scenes, interviews with the patients reveal that they are unable to carry out the intricate killings and mutilations.

Tommy Sunlight - a strange patient discovered walking aimlessly disguised as a priest eleven years ago, who boasts of being the Gemini Killer reborn and claims to have carried out the recent killings while being confined to a locked cell in a straitjacket. He alleges that the doctors and nurses allowed him out to murder on one occasion. He also has a striking resemblance to Damien Karras, a priest who is said to have been killed in The Exorcist by falling down a flight of stairs.

The genuine Gemini Killer, James Vennamun, whose body was never recovered, implying that he may have lived and resumed his atrocities.

Sunlight informs Kinderman towards the conclusion of the story that the demon from the previous novel (The Exorcist) helped him in possessing Damien Karras' body soon after Karras' death as a form of vengeance for having been pushed out of the small girl. Sunlight spent years attempting to regain control of his injured body, during which time Karras was sent to a psychiatric institution. He had no identity and was given the moniker Sunlight because he sat in the sun's rays as they streamed through his cell window.

After eventually taking possession of Karras' body, the Gemini would periodically leave it to inhabit the bodies of senile dementia patients, which he could use to execute murders because they were in an open ward with access to the outside world. As a result, the fingerprints of numerous senile patients were discovered at crime scenes; their bodies committed the killings, but the Gemini Killer was in charge of them.

The Gemini's original motivation was to humiliate his loathed father, a preacher. The Gemini Killer believes his job is complete when his father dies through natural causes, and he sees no reason to keep Karras' body. He summons the detective; feeling obligated to explain everything to Kinderman, and succeeds in getting Kinderman to admit that he believes he, Sunlight, is the Gemini Killer. He then wills himself to pass away from heart failure.

Dr. Temple had a stroke and becomes intellectually handicapped as a result. Dr. Amfortas dies in a house accident after being harassed by a possibly demonic Doppelganger of himself, despite the fact that he was already terminally sick from a condition he refused to cure in order to join his departed wife).

Kinderman and his devoted buddy Atkins are in a burger bar in the novel's last chapter. Atkins is given Kinderman's views and speculations about the case, as well as how it connects to his issue with the concept of evil. Kinderman concludes that the Big Bang was Lucifer falling from heaven, that the entire Universe, including mankind, is made up of Lucifer's broken bits, and that evolution is the process of Lucifer reassembling himself as an angel.


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The Exorcist Summary

The Exorcist

Published: June 1971

Author: William Peter Blatty

Book 1 of 2: The Exorcist Series

Genres: American, Classics, Demonic Possession, Demonology & Satanism, Fiction, Horror, Movie Tie-In, Occult, Psychological


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Summary:

Father Lankester Merrin, an old Jesuit priest, is organizing an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and examining ancient relics. Following the discovery of a tiny statue of the demon Pazuzu (a real ancient Assyrian demon), a succession of omens warns him of an impending encounter with a tremendous evil, which he had already faced in an exorcism in Africa, which the reader is unaware of at this time.

Meanwhile, in Georgetown, a small girl named Regan MacNeil lives with her renowned mother, actress Chris MacNeil, who is filming a movie there. As Chris completes her work on the film, Regan begins to become unwell for no apparent reason. Regan begins to rapidly undergo disturbing psychological and physical changes after a series of poltergeist-like disturbances in their rented house, for which Chris attempts to find rational explanations. She refuses to eat or sleep, becomes withdrawn and frenetic, and becomes increasingly aggressive and violent. Regan's conduct is originally misinterpreted by Chris as the consequence of buried resentment at her parents' split and her father's absence.

As Regan's behavior grows increasingly unstable, Regan's mother, an atheist, seeks aid from a local Jesuit priest after many unsuccessful psychiatric and medical therapies. Father Damien Karras, who is having a faith crisis as a result of his mother's death, agrees to see Regan as a psychiatrist, but first rejects the idea that it is a genuine demonic possession. He approaches the local bishop for permission to conduct an exorcism on the kid after a few encounters with the youngster, who is now totally possessed by a demonic entity.

The bishop he contacts believe Karras is unqualified to conduct the rituals, so he chooses Merrin, an experienced exorcist who has lately returned to the United States, to administer the exorcism, but he does allow the doubt-ridden Karras to help him. The priests are put to the test both physically and spiritually throughout the protracted exorcism.

When Merrin, who had previously suffered from cardiac arrhythmia, passes away during the procedure, Father Karras is left to finish the exorcism. The devil seizes the opportunity to possess the priest as he demands that the demonic spirit occupy him instead of the innocent Regan. Karras bravely sacrifices his own life to save Regan's by jumping out of her bedroom window and dying, rediscovering his trust in God as his final rites are read.


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Doctor Sleep Summary

Doctor Sleep

Published: 24, September 2013

Author: Stephen King

Book 2 of 2: The Shining

Genres: American, Contemporary, Fiction, Ghost, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Psychological, Supernatural, Thrillers, Movie Tie-In, Occult, Suspense, Psychic, Vampires


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Summary:

Danny Torrance remains mentally damaged by the events of The Shining, despite obtaining compensation from the Overlook Hotel's proprietors. His mother Wendy heals slowly from her injuries. They are currently residing in the state of Florida. Angry Overlook ghosts, including the woman from Room 217, are still on the hunt for Danny and his incredible "shining" ability. Danny is taught to build lockboxes in his head to imprison the spirits, including those of former Overlook owner Horace Derwent, by Dick Hallorann, the restaurant's chef.

Danny (now known as Dan) continues his father's heritage of rage and drinking as an adult. Dan spends years traveling around the United States before settling in New Hampshire and deciding to stop drinking. He settles in Frazier, where he works for the Frazier municipal department before moving on to the local hospice and attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. His telepathic skills, which had been repressed by his drinking, resurface, allowing him to console dying patients. Dan earns the moniker "Doctor Sleep" because of a cat named "Azzie" who can feel when someone is going to die.

Meanwhile, Abra Stone, a newborn girl born in 2001, begins to show signs of psychic abilities when she appears to foretell the 9/11 events. She develops a psychic link with Dan slowly and accidentally. As she matures, the touch becomes more aware and voluntary, and her radiance surpasses even his. One night, Abra psychically watches the True Knot, a gang of quasi-immortal psychic vampires, many of whom have their own "shine" powers, torturing and murdering a young child.

Members of the True Knot travel across the United States, feeding on "steam," a mental essence created when those who possess the shining die in agony. Their victims are referred to as Rubes. Rose the Hat, the True Knot's commander, learns of Abra's existence and devises a scheme to abduct her and keep her alive by forcing her to create an endless supply of steam.

The True Knot are dying of measles, which they got from their previous victim, a little boy called Bradley Trevor, and they believe that Abra's steam will cure them. Dan agrees to assist Abra, and he tells her father David, and their family doctor, John Dalton, about their relationship. Initially enraged and hesitant, David eventually comes to trust Dan and agrees to help him save Abra. They prevent and murder a raiding party sent by Rose, commanded by Rose's boyfriend Crow Daddy, with the help of one of Dan's pals, Billy Freeman.

Dan, on the other hand, understands that Rose would persistently pursue Abra for vengeance. He telepathically discovers through Abra's great-grandmother Concetta, who is dying of cancer, that he and Abra's mother Lucy are half-siblings with the same father: Jack Torrance. Dan absorbs Concetta's sick steam inside himself as she dies. Meanwhile, discord among The True Knot's ranks, along with Rose's infatuation with Abra, leads to the group's disbandment, leaving Rose with even fewer supporters.

Abra leads Rose into confronting her at the area where the Overlook Hotel once stood in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, now home to a campground owned by the True Knot, following another kidnapping attempt that Abra foils with Dan's psychic assistance. Dan and Billy journey to the location, with Abra assisting them through astral projection. Dan waits in the shadows and releases the steam collected from Concetta on the remaining True Knot members, killing them all.

He also frees Horace Derwent's spirit to assassinate the final remaining member, Silent Sarey, who was preparing to ambush him and Abra, and the two fight Rose in a protracted psychic battle. They throw Rose over an observation platform with the aid of Billy and the spirit of Dan's father, Jack Torrance, so she falls to the earth, breaking her neck and dies. Dan sees his father wave farewell before departing the campground, having finally found peace.

Dan celebrates 15 years of sobriety and attends Abra's 15th birthday celebration in the epilogue. He informs her about his family's history of drunkenness and aggressive conduct and cautions her not to follow in his footsteps by drinking or succumbing to wrath. Dan is summoned back to his hospice, where he comforts a dying colleague who had previously antagonized him. Before they can conclude their chat, Dan is called back to his hospice, where he comforts a dying colleague who had previously antagonized him.


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The Woman In Black Summary

A Ghost Story
Published: 10, October 1983

Author: Susan Hill

Genres: Classic, Fiction, Ghosts, Horror, Literary, Occult, Supernatural, Suspense, Thrillers

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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
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