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Woman in Black

Great atmosphere. Interesting characters. Slender, slender plot.

Eel House is haunted by the woman in black. There also is ghostly death of a young child in a coach that is sucked up by quicksand.  Our hero, alone in Eel House, reads of a child years ago taken from a mother and adopted by relatives--no doubt the drowned child.  And that's it for plot, other than the locals all being reluctant to go near Eel House or discuss it or admit to seeing the Woman in Black.  Too bad the plot is so thin as the rest is very good.

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