A review by deanna_rigney
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

3.0

Eerie little Victorian tale of a spooky place on a marsh that you can only get to by a causeway at low tide...extreme spooksville. Christmas Eve in England is the time for families to gather and tell ghost stories by the fire in the sitting room, apparently a time-honored tradition I am intrigued by and might have to make a part of my own family's Christmas Eves, but I digress. So old step-dad has to get out and "take a turn" in the night air because the tale he has haunts him to this day. And so begins his account of his youthful lawyer days and the settling of the estate (i.e. spooksville) of one Mrs. Drablow. This is definitely "things that go bump in the night" kind of stuff, and very Victorian with everyone mysteriously avoiding to meet each others eyes and not speaking their dark words in front of the fairer sex.