Later as he goes through Mrs Drablows papers at Eel Marsh House, Kidd experiences disturbances of a supernatural nature.

He rescues her, while the villagers watch on, preventing her from being crushed to death by further falling logs. While travelling through the village, Kidd witnesses a lumber truck shed its load, hitting and crippling a Romani child. He mentions the woman to Pepperell who seems most perturbed by the sighting. When Kidd attends the funeral with local solicitor Pepperell, he notices a woman in black in the church and then again standing among the gravestones. Kidd finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about either the Drablow's home, Eel Marsh House and the family in general. Upon exiting the train, Kidd meets Sam Toovey (Bernard Hepton), a local landowner who is unsettled by his prospective dealings in the affairs of the late Mrs Drablow. In 1925, London solicitor Arthur Kidd (Adrian Rawlins) travels to the coastal market town of Crythin Gifford in North East England to attend the funeral and settle the estate of a reclusive widow, Alice Drablow. It can be viewed in a reframed 16:9 widescreen format or in its original 4:3 aspect ratio. However, Network Distribution have finally released a remastered Blu-ray (and DVD), complete with commentary from such luminaries as Mark Gatiss, Kim Newman and Andy Nyman (who appears in this adaptation). Since then rights issues have dogged this TV movie, turning it into a genre classic among horror fans, which has often been discussed in hushed tones by those who saw the original TV broadcast and were left traumatised by “that scene”. This was followed by a Region 1 DVD release in 2000 which was a relatively small pressing of the media. The Woman in Black, Susan Hill's story-within-a-story, follows English lawyer Arthur Kipps as he confronts a paranormal experience from his younger days. There was a limited VHS release exclusive to the store WHSmith in 1990. Well until recently the 1989 UK television adaptation of Susan Hill’s ghost story, The Woman in Black has been conspicuously unavailable. The Woman in Black is a ghost story and therefore the idea of the supernatural is intrinsic to the whole work.1 The whole point of a ghost story is to frighten, thrill and entertain. They say that “absence makes the heart grow fonder”. Susan Hill weaves an awareness of the supernatural throughout the story through the plot, the structure, the use of language and imagery.

The woman in black by susan hill 1983