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A'''''The Woman in Black''''' is a 1983 novel written by Susan Hill, with a 1989 [[Made for TV Movie]] adaptation and a (still-running){{verify}} 1989 stage adaptation. The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the east coast of Britain to attend to the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
 
Kipps is left a nervous wreck and returns to London to his fiancée.
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The stage play adaptation has now been going on for 20 years at the Fortune theater, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theater). 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...
 
In 2012, [[Hammer Horror|Hammer Films]] released a feature [[The Woman in Black (Filmfilm)|film]] version starring [[Daniel Radcliffe]]. Coincidentally, the 1989 version starred Radcliffe's onscreen father Adrian Rawlins.
 
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=== Tropes common to all the versions: ===
 
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* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Jennet Humfrye's letters to Alice Drablow, which conclude on a note of dire [[Foreshadowing]].
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: Spider.
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** {{spoiler|In the theater version, she appears to the actor, who reveals that he has a wife and son, similarly to Kipps before they died. Kipps cannot see her. The play ends as the actor claps his hand to his mouth in horror, then runs offstage...}}
 
=== The theater version provides examples of: ===
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Kipps, until about halfway through the first scene in his story.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* [[Person Withwith the Clothing]]
* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: Older-Kipps.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Stage only, and lampshaded by the actor, referring to Kipps' manuscript of the event.
 
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