History Literature / TheWomanInBlack

** [[spoiler:In the theatre 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 stage play has a different slant: in order to keep the budget low and to be able to do it as a two-hander play, it is instead portrayed as an elderly Kipps employing an actor to help him get the story across to his family.

* GhostStory: Obviously, but the novel's FramingDevice has Arthur's family sharing ghost stories on Christmas Eve. When they press upon him to tell one, he refuses and leaves them in agitation, then resolves to write down his own horrific past experience in the hopes of "exorcising" it from his memory.

The stage play has a different slant; in order to keep the budget low and to be able to do it as a two-hander play, it is instead portrayed as an elderly Kipps employing an actor to help him get the story across to his family.

* Film/HammerHorror: The story bears all the moodiness and foreboding of a Hammer film. Appropriately, the studio produced the [[Film/TheWomanInBlack 2012 film]], which takes the atmosphere [[UpToEleven up to eleven.]]

* GhostStory: Obviously, but the novel's FramingDevice has Arthur's family sharing ghost stories on Christmas Eve. When they press him to tell one, he refuses and leaves them in agitation, then resolves to write down his own horrific past experience in the hopes of "exorcising" it from his memory.

* GhostStory: Obviously, but the novel's FramingDevice has Arthur's family sharing ghost stories on Christmas Eve. When they press him to tell one, he refuses and leaves them in agitation, then resolves to write his own horrific story down in the hopes of "exorcising" it from his memory.

* OminousFog: The "sea frets", thick mists that roll in around the marshes and limit visibility.