SH What emerged as chief ingredient was atmosphere.
Usually, when those bits and pieces are there, I let them marinade – like stuff for a stew…Īnd how did The Woman in Black emerge as chief ingredient? But I hadn't got – never do – a book particularly. I'd been reading ghost stories and kept thinking: nobody writes these at length any more. Susan Hill I hadn't written anything full-length since before my elder daughter – who was about four or five – was born. How did the birth of The Woman in Black come about? And there is an unusual rapport between her and distinguished, amiable Susan Hill as they set out to explain what is involved in being parent and guardian to The Woman in Black. Everything about Goldman suggests charm and fearlessness – even her flowing pink hair. And she has taken audacious liberties with the plot while in no way compromising the spirit of the book. A journalist, TV presenter and bestselling author ( Dreamworld, The X Files Book of the Unexplained), she moved into screen-writing five years ago ( The Debt, X-Men: First Class). Since 1997 there have been several attempts at a screenplay but it has had to wait for Jane Goldman to crack it. But there is a reason for this: it is devilishly hard to adapt. It might seem surprising the story has not been made into a film before. She is a veteran in the scare stakes, having been spooking audiences for almost 30 years – first, in Susan Hill's accomplished, flesh-creeping novel and then as an indestructible force on the West End stage. Psychologically terrifying and deliciously eerie, The Woman in Black is a remarkable thriller of the first rate.Y ou might think Daniel Radcliffe, post-Harry Potter, would not scare easily but that would be to underestimate The Woman in Black. The routine business trip he anticipated quickly takes a horrifying turn when he finds himself haunted by a series of mysterious sounds and images-a rocking chair in a deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and, most terrifying of all, a ghostly woman dressed all in black. Drablow's house stands at the end of the causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but Kipps is unaware of the tragic secrets that lie hidden behind its sheltered windows.
Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford-a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway-to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, Mrs. Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe. The classic ghost story from the author of The Mist in the Mirror : a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town.
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