Hill employs the standard elements — vague warning from an older gentleman, unsettling malaise, a crumbling English house, a mysterious ancestry and a naive narrator — to tell the story of James Monmouth. James, our narrator, is English by birth but has no memory of the short time he spent there as a small child.…
REVIEW: THE WOMAN IN BLACK (2012)
A crumbling manor, a mysterious curse, a sea mist and creepy deaths. How could I (of all people) resist? I am completely unfamiliar with the book (of the same name) by Susan Hill, which is rather unlike me. And I was unable to see the staged version while in London this summer. So I came…