Arthur attends the funeral with Mr Jerome, a property agent, and sees a woman dressed in black with a heavy veil, obscuring a ravaged face and body. On the long train journey north, he meets Samuel Daily, a local of Crythin Gifford, who comments that no one else will attend Mrs Drablow’s funeral. As a younger man, Arthur was sent by his law firm to Crythin Gifford, a remote village in the north-east of England, to attend the funeral of an elderly client, Mrs Alice Drablow, the former resident of Eel Marsh House. He panics and leaves the house, haunted by a past trauma, and then commits to writing down his story so as to exorcise his memories. On Christmas Eve, his family tell ghost stories, and ask Arthur to contribute.
Arthur Kipps, a retired solicitor, leaves peacefully with his wife Esme and her children at Monk’s Piece, his home in the countryside. What it’s about: England, the early 1900s.
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