The book begins with Arthur Kipps celebrating the holidays with his family in a cosy little cottage. Then, his step children start to tell ghost stories, he acts strange and then storms out of the room. Turns out he had a super natural encounter when he was a young man. Part of his job as a solicitor is to sort through the deceased’s papers, as a young man he was sent to the town of Crythin Gifford to sort through the late Mrs Alice Drablow’s papers. First he went to her funeral and sees a ghostly figure of a lady there. He asks questions about her to the towns folk, who refuse to speak of it. He then goes to Eel Marsh house, which is cut off from the main land by the tide at certain times if the day, upon his arrival he begins to sort through mountains of papers. He decides to stay the night and strange things happen, like a rocking chair moving by its self and the repeated sound of a pony and trap getting stuck in the Marsh. Eventually Arthur figures out that the woman is the ghost of Jennet Humfrye, whose child died in an accident, and now haunts the area and it is revealed that every time she is seen, a child dies. This time no child dies, he goes back to London, gets married to a woman called Stella and has a child, Joseph. They are at a fair Stella and Joseph get in a pony and trap, he sees the woman, they crash and both of them die. Consequently Arthur doesn’t like ghost stories.

I enjoyed the book and its descriptive language. It really pulls the reader in and makes you feel for the town folk who have suffered the curse.

It isn’t what I would normally read, a little dark and quite slow burning.

The film adaption has a different flow and ends with him, his wife and child all being reunited in the afterlife.

I would recommend the book to my younger sister, when she is a bit older, as I think it would really inspire some of her art.

 

The woman in black is a spooky novel about a middle age man (Author kipps) who goes to sort out paperwork at Eel marsh house. The house is secluded and empty due to Mrs Alice Drablow’s passing. Arthur starts to realise that there are supernatural things that are happing around him. This interreges him, having a strong fascination to that house. 

I liked that Susan Hill the writer has created such a unique book that has twisted minds for centuries. The book fascinated me with the actual woman in black’s story. Who she is? And why she is not at piece with herself nor Mrs Drablow. As along with most ghost stories children are involved; being pure and innocent they always seem to be the venerable ones in the situation. Normally making the reader feel sorrier or even more connected to the story as they want to find out each individuals story and why the killings are happing in this way and why is the woman in black connected to them?

Parts of the story that I didn’t like would have to be when the woman in black is at the funeral, described as an ill looking woman with a “wasted face” I found this part a bit creepy, but not enough for a ghost story. I think as this is the first time we see the woman in black it should be a lot more dramatic, because at the end of the day there is going to be different spirits at a grave yard that could appear spooky in any dusk light. I think the woman in black should enter the story like a ship sinking and actually making a big bold entrance just like her exit. The woman in black just seems to follow people about appearing in different places and then a child dies. 

  
holly austin

It is a story about ell marsh house and the hauntings and happening around the house and its background. We find out what is behind all the mysterious hauntings and the story behind it. Where a young solicitor by the name of kipps travels to a small village to sort out some paperwork of the deceased Mrs .Drablow. 

I liked that the book had more detail but withheld the reason for the haunting making it more shocking. Andui also that there were dramatic parts to read about hinting of what’s to come.I also liked how the writer has put that every time the woman in black is seen then a child mysteriously dies this novel was thrilling . The mysterious characters and all films have the similar themes just different characters and descriptions

I don’t like that the church yard part was creepy but wasn’t enough to make US SCARED OR ANYTHING

In the book the woman in black a man called Arthur Kipps takes a work trip to a house called Eel marsh house which once was home to a woman called Mrs Drablow. This house is haunted by the spirit of said Mrs Drablow and she is known as the woman in black. When people see Arthur and ask what he is doing they are very reluctant to tell him about the reason they’re scared of the place but he soon finds out at the funeral when  he sees a woman in a black dress but no one else sees her . He then keeps seeing her until the day when he has finished and returns home. But when he thinks he has gotten away from the woman she comes back and causes the death of his child and wife by spooking the horse which is towing their carriage. 

What I like about the book is that it tells the story from arthurs point of view but also gives us obvious hints of what is going to happen and foreshadows it. What I didn’t like about the book is that the flow of the story is very slow. 

The film was completely different to the book because it shows different things that didn’t happen in the book. As well as this it shows the film in a much more vivid way than the book. 

Luke Poulton

 

 

The Woman in Black is about a man named Arthur Kipps who is sent to attend the funeral of Alice Drablow, and recover her papers. Mrs Drablow was the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, a now abandoned, isolated house located on its own island on a causeway with high and low tides. At the funeral, Arthur sees a wasted woman dressed in all Black hiding away from the rest of the people. This is the Woman in Black, afterwards, Arthur is sent over to the isolated house to begin retrieving the papers of Mrs Drablow. At the house, Arthur witnesses the mysterious woman again, he initially tries to ignore it and get on with his task, but when he returns to the village, a child has died a horrible death, and the villagers are all alarmed of Arthur’s visit to the house. After the incident, Arthur tries to find out who this woman is and the story behind the place, eventually, he manages to force someone to tell him and finds out that whenever the woman is seen, for however long and whoever by, that there is a certainty that a child has died. Arthur finds out that the woman is a mother of a child who died in one of the high tides on the causeway, eventually, they think they have managed to end it somehow but the curse carries on.

 

Arthur then thinks the woman is gone for good and when he, his wife and their new child are out one day, the Woman in Black shows up again and causes the death of Arthur’s child and eventually his wife too.

 

The main thing I like about the book is the way the story develops, unlike other stories, where all that there is to know is already known instantly, with The Woman in Black, the facts and plot develop as the book goes on, at the start, we do not know the reason why this woman is even showing up, but as the book progresses, we find out about the reasons as to why she does and who she even is in the first place. The description of the various happenings inside and outside of the house also add that element of fear that a ghost story should have, I also believe that there is a certain element of suspense as the book goes on, as we have to find out towards the end, how to stop the curse, not in the beginning like other stories, where, the way to do it is known but they can’t do it for whatever reason. The way the book progresses with the story does give a certain element of mystery which I particularly like and feel is very appropriate in this type of book.

 

The thing I don’t like is how the story seems to skip at times, vital things that the reader will need to know, like for example, the woman’s identity and past is only really described in a few lines, making it very hard to actually understand the events that have lead up to that point. In my opinion, there is not enough of a character development about the woman to actually fully understand her whole story, I think at least a paragraph should have focused in on this. Another thing I didn’t like too much was how the story is very complicated and hard to understand at times, the way the curse is removed is particularly complicated because we just seem to be rushed right into it rather than having the full instructions and moments leading up to it.

 

The film compared to the book, well, there is no comparison really, the book is much better. In the book, we have a full series of events and a beginning, middle and end, the film doesn’t seem to follow the accurate events. The events in the film seem like they have been invented by the film producers rather than linking the storyline to the book. The ending is the main point, instead of having the child and wife killed at the end, the child and Arthur are killed instead, and inaccurately by a train instead of something in a park. The film also uses shock value too much, there doesn’t seem to be a single scene without something making us jump, which to me, really ruins the storyline with all the scare scenes which aren’t serious. The book is much easier to understand as we are not being scared out of our seats too much to even follow the story.

 

The thing I liked about the woman in black was the mystery of the women in black it is just when you are at the funeral and then you see a lady dressed in all black and it makes you think who is she and how is she related to Mrs Drablow and I think this is the thing that makes you continue reading the book.

The thing I didn’t like about the book is that we wasn’t told much about Mrs Drablow and we didn’t find out enough about her I think she was a big part of the story but we didn’t even get to know her that well. I feel like we should have been told more about the history of Mrs Drablow and the sister and the son. 

The film in general wasn’t that good because the film only portrayed some bits of the book and the ending was completely different to the books ending which made me hate the film the book all together was much better than the film because the book created a bigger sense of  mystery and a bigger sense of horror 

I would recommend this book to anyone who like horror and mystery books because this book is filled with horror and mystery.  

I didn’t like the part in the movie when it was a jumpscare vs the book where it wasn’t as scary. 

Book review of the Woman in Black 

 

Plot: the story starts in Victorian London where the main character Arthur Kipps has finished his dinner in his house. He then decides to get some fresh air while he lets his meal settle down but as soon he steps outside he starts to have flashbacks of one of his Bosses customers Mrs Alice Drablow and her house that he had go and attend her funeral and stay at her house while also looking for some documents that his boss needed so that the house could be passed down to any relatives. And to collect any legal documents. Arthur started to go crazy because he had seen the Woman in Black and so he decided to leave with the legal documents to get rid of the curse. But the curse followed him and killed his wife and son. 

The things I liked about the book was that there a sense of mystery around Mrs Drablow and what happened to her sister and her son before he drowned in the water and that his body was never found. 

 

What I didn’t like was that it didn’t much focus on Mrs Drablow much in the story because she was the main reason that Arthur went up to Crythin Gifford to get her documents and that she should have been made a more important character because without her he wouldn’t have gone in the first place 

 

 

Woman in black revew

Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a lawyer, is recently widowed and grieving the loss of his wife when he is sent to a remote village to put a deceased eccentric's affairs in order. Soon after his arrival, it becomes clear that the villagers are hiding a terrible secret. Kipps discovers that his late client's house is haunted by the spirit of a woman who is trying to find someone and something she lost, and that no one -- not even the children -- is safe from her terrible wrath. 

A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals. In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves over the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years before. 

London solicitor Arthur Kipps is sent to the village of Crythin Gifford to review the personal papers of the deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur hasn't had a successful career - at least in part - as he is still grieving for his wife, who died giving birth to their son Joseph four years before. Crythin Gifford is a bleak village and its residents are anything but welcoming. Arthur realizes that no one is the village is very happy with the fact that he will be working at Eel Marsh manor. He soon learns that the house is haunted by the Woman in Black, the ghost of a woman whose son drowned in a bog. Whenever she appears, a child from the village dies. 

Arthur makes a daguerotype go round, and he sees for a split second, the dark eyes of the woman in black. Scribbled photographs: a shadow passes by, and the dog begins to bark. Arthur follows the dog, who barks close to the tombstone of Nathaniel Drablow (Ashley Foster). When they go back to the mansion, Arthur sees the Woman in Black (Liz White), retreating from close to the window. When Arthur goes to that room, he looks out and sees the dilapidated view. Right on his back, the Woman in Black appears and immediately disappears. He doesn't see her, but he feels something so he looks around. In a wooden box, he finds cards addressed to Nathaniel from his birth mother, The Woman in Black, signing as "MUMMY". That woman was Jennet, who had a tombstone alongside Nathaniel's. Through the documents, it looks like Jennet gave her child on adoption (as she was deemed mentally unfit to raise her child). It is also revealed that Nathaniel is adopted by Jannet's sister Alice who keeps this as a secret and raises Nathaniel as her own son. Through many letters, Arthur comes to know that Jannet was very displeased as she wasn't allowed to visit her son. After the accident that took the life of Nathaniel, his body was never found in the marshlands. 

 

I don’t realy know as I am a siv brain for information so the internet helped me 

He was sent there following Alice Drablows death, Arthur was sent there to collect her papers and to assure there weren’t any updated last wills and testaments. On his visit he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman, who is haunting the house trying to someone and something she lost, and while she is still searching no one is safe. 

I think book was very detailed and it was good to read i just personally think that the film is better as obviously you can see what is happening rather than having to imagine it. 
i would recommend this to confident readers as there are some complicated terms and words.

A woman called Alice Drablow has passed away and left her eel marsh abandoned which nobody in the village steps foot into the house. 

A man called Arthur Kipps from London attends Mrs Drablows funnel and is to sort out her documents. Arthur notices a women dressed in black from head to foot at the funnel, but she is not a human but a ghost who haunts the local village because her son death. 

The ghost stalks Arthur whenever he is inside eel marsh house, Once Arthur realises about the ghost, he escapes back to London. Sadly, the ghost followed him back to London that kills his wife and son while on a pony and trap. 

There was not a lot I liked about the book, as there was not much interesting scenes. The most disappointing thing was there was not a face-to-face moment with Arthur and the women in black as I could have been more interesting.  In addition, what if she talked what could she have said to Arthur and what would he say to her? 

Comparing the book to the film is hard to judge, because they have different and new scenes than the book including the ending.

Women in black review 

It’s about a guy called Arthur who lives in London and he sees ghosts what no one else sees and it brings old memories of the person who is now dead. 

What I liked about the story is that it tells us about Arthur’s life and what he is seeing. 

What I didn’t like about the story is it doesn’t compare with the film it says different things in the story and it doesn’t give you the picture from the story what it has in the film. 

 

What I liked about the film is when Arthur goes inside the haunted house and weird things starts to happen for example the toys and the rocking chair starts to move.  

The story is very interesting and carries a lot of suspense with it. Arthur Kipps who is a solicitor is asked to visit Crythin Gifford by his boss Mr Bentley, in order to look through all the paperwork of Mrs Alice Drablow who has recently died in El Marsh House. 

On Arthur's Journey to Crythin Gifford he meets a man with the name Sam Daily who also lives in the small town. Sam seems very interested when he realises that Arthur is visiting purely on the fact that he needs to sort through Mrs Drablows papers. 

Once he has arrived at El Marsh House and seen the amount of papers he has to organise he realises that this is going to take much longer than a couple of days as planned and knew it was going to be job that needs a lot of time and energy to be done correctly. As the story goes on a lot of mysterious things happen that scare Arthur into believing something bad is happening in the town. When they all attend the funeral, Arthur sees the “woman in black”, who appears to be dieing of some dreadful disease. Keckwick drives Arthur back to El Marsh House after the Funeral in the Pony and Trap. 

It turns out that after a few occasions of the “Woman in black” making an appearance, Arthur finds a death Certificate of someone called Nathaniel who ends up being Jannet’s Son (Jannet being Mrs Drablows sister).

After a lot of investigating Arthur Kipps works out from the piles of paperwork that Jannet is the “Woman in Black”. 

Whenever Arthur tried to talk to someone about these occasions they would shut him down and block it out. The reason behind this that Arthur has now worked out is because everyone wants to deny that Jennet has been seen because a child dies everytime she appears. 

Jannet’s son had died in the pony and trap along with His nursemaid and Keckwicks father, due to drowning in the Marsh. Jannet watched the whole thing happen. 

Once Arthur had arrived back home after his long business trip. Him and his wife have a baby named Joseph, but a couple years later, they all went to a fair and Joseph insisted he went on the pony and trap ride, only to find that the woman in black appeared again and caused a crash, meaning that his son died there and then and his wife died 10 months later. 

There were a few things I liked about the story. 

These being:-

There were a few things I don't like about the story. 

These being:- 

I didn't watch the film but I imagine that the film would be better to the book as it doesn't require as much concentration and it would also give you a really feel for story line. 

I would however highly recommend this book as it does draw you in and it makes for a good horror. 4 star rating. 

 

The story of The Woman in Black started off in London where a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps who was required to go and sort out a deceased woman, Mrs Drablow paper work. Arthur was sent to the Crythin Gifford, which is a small farming town on the marsh to a place called Eel Marsh house which was abandoned by being cut off when the tide was in.  

 

Strange things begin to happen at Eel Marsh house. Alice Drablow had an unmarried sister named Jennet who had a child which had died in a horrible accident with a pony and trap a long time ago. Every time the ghost of Jennet was sighted a child died. 

I liked the character Mr Daily who helped out Arthur even though he didn’t need to, he had lost a child to the ghost of Jennet himself. Also the fact that he gave him his dog Spyder to keep him company at Eel Marsh house.

I didn’t like the fact there was so many characters, I found it confusing at times.

 

 

I thought that the woman in black was good as a video but not as a book because you could see what was going on but the story was good apart from I had to imagine what was going on.

The Woman in Black is a ghost story by Susan Hill, in which Arthur Kipps relates his haunting experiences at Eel Marsh House.
The tale begins on Christmas Eve, when Arthur's step-children invite him to tell a ghost story. Arthur is too disturbed by his memories to share his story aloud, so he writes it down. In his story, a young Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is sent to settle the affairs of Alice Drablow. He sees a woman dressed in black at her funeral, though apparently no one else does. At Eel Marsh House, a house beyond a causeway, Arthur is haunted by noises and sightings of the woman. Eventually a local man, Sam Daily, reveals the full story of how Alice Drablow's sister, Jennet, haunts the house. He explains that a child dies each time the woman in black is seen. At the end of the story, Arthur sees the woman in black again and his wife and son die in a terrible accident.

I liked that the story was very easy to read, the text was understandable and the way they described the setting of each story. Also the way they portrayed the characters and made them interact with each other allowed to to feel as if i were there standing in the conservation.

However i didn't like that the main characters family died at the ending because it makes me feel the BIG sad :(

Tis book is shit I dod not injoyit at all thanks the movuie was worse

In the arther kippes goe to a house for documents but finds letters and dethere repotes then gets horntes.. kids die in the move but not the book. His sun dies in bother but in diffent ways. In the book he dose not die but in the move he douse. In the book arther gets re married and righs hes story.  
sorry abute spelling

I like the movie more than the book because I don’t have to concentrate on the text and understand what’s going on.

I don’t like about the story were – the difficult understanding the vocabulary and the language that was used in the text. Also they died at the end of the film not in the book.

Plot summary is that Arthur kips and the family are telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve gets frustrated that they ask him to he walks away this book is him looking back at his traumatizing past. He is given a job to find paper work to do with a dead woman and there’s a woman in black scaring him and he is petrified and he thinks she’s ‘cursed’. What I like about woman in black is how it leads up to the climax and its build up scary yet slow and intriguing don’t like about woman in black the repetitive nature of this book that is woman in black 

Woman in black review. 

 

The woman in black is short ghost story full of suspense by Susan Hill, where Arthur Kips relates to his traumatising time at Eel marsh house. And he trying to find out what is happening at Eel marsh house but he has to finds the papers for his job because he is a businessman. 

What I liked about the woman I black is he plot and how big the story is behind it and it kept me interested and always had something going on. The different choices of the words was amazing. And how everyone was scared about Miss Drablow and he woman in black. 

What I disliked about the woman in black the story was very confusing at times and it was hard to keep up 

The brief plot summary Arthur Kipps a lawyer, is recently widowed and grieving the loss of his wife when he is sent to a remote village to put a deceased eccentric is affairs in order. Soon after his arrival, it becomes clear that the villagers are hiding a terrible secret. Kipps discovers that his late client's house is haunted by the spirit of a woman who is trying to find someone and something she lost, and that no one not even the children is safe from her terrible wrath.

My own opinion on the book is that for certain reasons; I do not enjoy reading books so I found reading this book difficult. However, from what I heard it was a decent interesting book.

I did not like the book because of my dyslexic brain didn’t understand it and the way the book was laid out was weird and we didn’t read as much as we should have. 

The film was so much better because there was pictures and wasn’t making me bored.

 

 

There wasn’t much I enjoyed about the book, this is due to the fact that I read it very inconsistently and also never got the chance to finish reading it.However I can see that it is a well written book and I did enjoy that there was a lot of description as it can sometimes be hard to imagine the situations that Arthur Kipps gets himself into. As well as this its creepy and sometimes unsettling and this is overall what the novel is set out to do. 

I didn’t like the book purely due to the fact that I am not into gothic horror as well as this I didn’t enjoy the lack of information, we got about Mrs. Drablow I find this a shame as she is such an important character in the book and I feel that it would have been nice to know more about her. 

Review on woman on black. 

Woman in black is a ghost story about a young man called Arthur who writes a story about his experience in Eel marsh house. An experience that traumatises him for life 

 

The book had lots of interesting details and dark twist which I enjoyed. I especially liked how you learnt about the woman in black and her family step by step with Arthur it helped really bring me into the book. He also used lots of descriptive language which further brought me in. 

 

There were a few things I didn’t like however I thought that he often over wrought his fear for situations that weren’t that scary. And I thought that it was a random for his child to die so much later on and how It was supposed to be the woman in black revenge. Revenge for what?           

The woman in blacks was written by Susan hill. It is a horror story that involves a ghost. The main character Arthur Kipps starts the story by writing down his experience for his family what happened at Eel Marsh House. It first starts at Alice Drablow’s funeral where he first sees the woman in black. Daily rescues Arthur Kipps and explained to him what was going on. Arthur then finds the nursery and the woman in black returns. Arthurs wife and child die. The end. 

My opinion on the book “The woman in black” is that I didn’t find it completely interesting. This is because we read parts of the book every week and I had forgot what happened the week before. This meant I instantly didn’t know what was going on and didn’t pay attention. 

Annabelle is about a group of orphan girls going to stay in a new home and they’re not allowed in the dead girl’s bedroom. During the night, one of the girls go in the room and they find a doll, the doll ends up being possessed and possess the girl and throws her down the stairs.

I thought that the film was quite humorous, I enjoyed that the film was quite detailed, and I loved all the gore. I think the film could be improved by adding more blood, I enjoyed the plot of the entire film. However, I do enjoy the horror in films, so I hoped for it to be more frightening. 

Meddling Kids is a dark twist on the childhood classic of Scooby Doo; different characters with similar stereotyping with the exception of one character. In their mid-twenties, traumatised by certain inconsistencies in their final case, three of the four former Blyton Summer Detective Club members return to Blyton Hills to face their demons. Literally.

 

Some things I really enjoy about Meddling Kids are the way it presents itself, from the writing techniques to the cover. Even the first sentences set the tone for the rest of the story, gripping you to the point that your heart begins to race as if you were experiencing those things yourself; “It starts when you pull the light chain and light doesn’t come. Then you know you will never wake up in time, you will not make it to the end of this paragraph alive.” Is an example of how the author breaks the forth-wall in a way as to not ruin the flow of the story and leads you to want to read onward.

Another thing I like is how the author swaps between prose and script in a way that does not break the flow of the piece, somehow both consistent and inconsistent. It feels very natural in the style of writing and works to expand the possibilities of the creativity involved with fictional writing. Here is an example “She had to step forward – Insert close-up shot of military surplus boots abusing the floorboards – to locate the person she’d come to fetch…” this style of writing is natural despite the difference. 

What I liked 

The characters were interesting and were relevant, having personal or other attachment to Eel marsh house.

Atmosphere was well developed, bringing the fear from the characters straight to the readers

What I didn’t like 

The book did drag on a fair bit, quite the struggle to maintain interest though out. Except for dramatic moments 

 I like the book as it was on edge and you did not know what was going to happen in the next line.I didn't like how there was the face to face action it would of been nice if the woman in black would of said a few lines.    

The biggest thing I liked about the book was the plot, at least from what I read, this is because the plot keeps you gripped to reading as you didn’t k ow what was going to happen. 

If I’m honest this kind of book isn’t my cup of tea so purely because of this.