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!!The theatre version provides examples of:
* BadBadActing: Kipps, until about halfway through the first scene in his story.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* PersonWithTheClothing
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Older-Kipps.
* StylisticSuck: Stage only, and lampshaded by the actor, referring to Kipps' manuscript of the event.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Woman? I didn't see a woman ..."]] or, [[spoiler: "I saw no young woman...]]
* BadBadActing: Kipps, until about halfway through the first scene in his story.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* PersonWithTheClothing
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Older-Kipps.
* StylisticSuck: Stage only, and lampshaded by the actor, referring to Kipps' manuscript of the event.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Woman? I didn't see a woman ..."]] or, [[spoiler: "I saw no young woman...]]
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The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the northeastern coast of England to attend to the estate of the recently-departed Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House, which is isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes is sent by his employer to a small market town on the northeastern coast of England to attend to the estate of the recently-departed Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House, which is isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the northeastern coast of England to attend to the estate of the recently-departed Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the northeastern coast of England to attend to the estate of the recently-departed Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house House, which is isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the northeastern coast of Britain to attend to the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the northeastern coast of Britain England to attend to the funeral estate of the recently-departed Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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''The Woman in Black'' is a 1983 novel written by Susan Hill, with a 1989 MadeForTVMovie adaptation and a (still-running) 1989 stage adaptation. The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the east coast of Britain to attend to the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
Kipps is left a nervous wreck and returns to London to his fiancée.
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.
The stage play adaptation has now been going on for 20 years at the Fortune Theatre, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theatre), as well as the second longest-running play in all of the West End, after Theatre/TheMousetrap. This play is a favourite of school drama trips, making sure the audience usually has a group of easily startled kids who will scream in all the right places...
Kipps is left a nervous wreck and returns to London to his fiancée.
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.
The stage play adaptation has now been going on for 20 years at the Fortune Theatre, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theatre), as well as the second longest-running play in all of the West End, after Theatre/TheMousetrap. This play is a favourite of school drama trips, making sure the audience usually has a group of easily startled kids who will scream in all the right places...
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''The Woman in Black'' is a 1983 novel written by Susan Hill, with a 1989 MadeForTVMovie adaptation and a (still-running) 1989 stage adaptation.
The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on theeast northeastern coast of Britain to attend to the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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 Kippsis left a nervous wreck and returns employing an actor to London help him get the story across to his fiancée.family.
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.
The stage play adaptation has now been going on for 20 years at the Fortune Theatre, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theatre), as well as the second longest-running play in all of the West End, after Theatre/TheMousetrap.''Theatre/TheMousetrap''. This play is a favourite of school drama trips, making sure the audience usually has a group of easily startled kids who will scream in all the right places...
The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the
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The stage play adaptation has now been going on for 20 years at the Fortune Theatre, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theatre).theatre), as well as the second longest-running play in all of the West End, after Theatre/TheMousetrap. This play is a favourite of school drama trips, making sure the audience usually has a group of easily startled kids who will scream in all the right places...
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* FacialHorror: Arthur finds the Woman in Black's face creepier and creepier each time he sees it; at best, it looks near-skeletal. Then he notices the [[DeathGlare expression of bounless malevolence on her face]]...
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* FacialHorror: Arthur finds the Woman in Black's face creepier and creepier each time he sees it; at best, it looks near-skeletal. Then he notices the [[DeathGlare expression of bounless boundless malevolence on her face]]...
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* SwampsAreEvil: a marsh, actually (for those unclear of the difference, a swamp is a wet-land in a forst while a marsh is a wet-land on the border of a lake or ocean, with lots of grass and salty soil), but it ''is'' haunted and directly caused two deaths (three if you count the horse) and indirectly caused a whole bunch of others (because of the ghosts unliving there).
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* SwampsAreEvil: a marsh, actually (for those unclear of the difference, a swamp is a wet-land in a forst forest while a marsh is a wet-land on the border of a lake or ocean, with lots of grass and salty soil), but it ''is'' haunted and directly caused two deaths (three if you count the horse) and indirectly caused a whole bunch of others (because of the ghosts unliving there).
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* CorpseLand: The town of Crythin Gifford and surroundings is a minor version; a haunted house, swamp, and town all in close proxemity to each other.
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* CorpseLand: The town of Crythin Gifford and surroundings is a minor version; a haunted house, swamp, and town all in close proxemity proximity to each other.
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* SwampsAreEvil: a marsh, actually (for those unclear of the difference, a swamp is a wet-land in a forst while a marsh is a wet-land on the border of a lake or ocean), ocean, with lots of grass and salty soil), but it ''is'' haunted and directly caused two deaths (three if you count the horse) and indirectly caused a whole bunch of others (because of the ghosts unliving there).
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A 1983 novel written by Susan Hill, with a 1989 MadeForTVMovie adaptation and a (still-running) 1989 stage adaptation. The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the east coast of Britain to attend to the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
A 1983 novel written by Susan Hill, with a 1989 MadeForTVMovie adaptation and a (still-running) 1989 stage adaptation. The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the east coast of Britain to attend to the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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''The Woman in Black'' is a 1983 novel written by Susan Hill, with a 1989 MadeForTVMovie adaptation and a (still-running) 1989 stage adaptation. The story centers on a young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, who goes to a small market town on the east coast of Britain to attend to the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, an elderly widow who lived alone in solitary Eel Marsh House. She lived in a house isolated on an isle that is inaccessible for most of the day when the causeway floods. Oh, and it is haunted by her sister and mother of her adopted son (who died in an accident while still very young) Jennet. Whenever she is seen, a child dies.
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* DemonicPossession: At the climax of the book, Jennet forces Arthur to feel all the negative emotions she did when her son died.
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* CorpseLand: The town of Crythin Gifford and surroundings is a minor version; a haunted house, swamp, and town all in close proxemity to each other.
* DeathGlare: The ghost has this expression on her face at all times.
* DeathGlare: The ghost has this expression on her face at all times.
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* FacialHorror: Arthur finds the Woman in Black's face creepier and creepier each time he sees it; at best, it looks near-skeletal.
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* FacialHorror: Arthur finds the Woman in Black's face creepier and creepier each time he sees it; at best, it looks near-skeletal. Then he notices the [[DeathGlare expression of bounless malevolence on her face]]...
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* QuicksandSucks: Played straight.
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* QuicksandSucks: Played straight. In the novel, it makes a "horrid sucking, draining sound"; Arthur goes for a dip in an attempt to rescue [[spoiler: Mr. Daily's dog Spider]] and attributes a malevolent dragging sensation to it. In the film, he goes in to [[spoiler: Recover Nathaniel Drablow's body]]. In all versions, it's the cause of Nathaniel Drablow's death and what precipitates Jennet to haunt the town.
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* WomanInBlack: the titular spectre appears as a woman in mourning clothes. It's in the title, guys.
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In 2012, [[HammerHorror Hammer Films]] released a feature [[Film/TheWomanInBlack film]] version starring DanielRadcliffe. Coincidentally, the 1989 version starred Radcliffe's Harry Potter onscreen father Adrian Rawlins.
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In 2012, [[HammerHorror [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Films]] released a feature [[Film/TheWomanInBlack film]] version starring DanielRadcliffe.Creator/DanielRadcliffe. Coincidentally, the 1989 version starred Radcliffe's Harry Potter onscreen father Adrian Rawlins.
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* HammerHorror: Bears all of the moodiness and foreboding of a Hammer Film. Appropriately, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lReemWmO5o they are producing the Remake, which takes the atmosphere]] [[UpToEleven up to eleven.]]
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* HammerHorror: Film/HammerHorror: Bears all of the moodiness and foreboding of a Hammer Film. Appropriately, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lReemWmO5o they are producing the Remake, which takes the atmosphere]] [[UpToEleven up to eleven.]]
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB; the face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge.
** [[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...]]
** [[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...]]
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB; the face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge.
** [[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...]]
** [[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...]]
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** [[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...]]
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* JustEatGilligan: Kipps has to review all of Alice Drablow's documents, a task that will take several days at least. This apparently necessitates him staying in the creepy haunted house over several nights to do so...instead of, for example, reviewing said documents in the relative safety of the town.
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* JustEatGilligan: Kipps has to review all of Alice Drablow's documents, a task that will take several days at least. This apparently necessitates him staying in the creepy haunted house over several nights to do so... instead of, for example, reviewing said documents in the relative safety of the town.
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The stage play adaptation has now been going on for 20 years at the Fortune theater, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theater). This play is a favourite of school drama trips, making sure the audience usually has a group of easily startled kids who will scream in all the right places...
In 2012, [[HammerHorror Hammer Films]] released a feature [[Film/TheWomanInBlack film]] version starring DanielRadcliffe. Coincidentally, the 1989 version starred Radcliffe's onscreen father Adrian Rawlins.
In 2012, [[HammerHorror Hammer Films]] released a feature [[Film/TheWomanInBlack film]] version starring DanielRadcliffe. Coincidentally, the 1989 version starred Radcliffe's onscreen father Adrian Rawlins.
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The stage play adaptation has now been going on for 20 years at the Fortune theater, Theatre, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theater).theatre). This play is a favourite of school drama trips, making sure the audience usually has a group of easily startled kids who will scream in all the right places...
In 2012, [[HammerHorror Hammer Films]] released a feature [[Film/TheWomanInBlack film]] version starring DanielRadcliffe. Coincidentally, the 1989 version starred Radcliffe's Harry Potter onscreen father Adrian Rawlins.
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** [[spoiler:In the theater 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...]]
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** [[spoiler:In the theater 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...]]
!!Thetheater theatre version provides examples of:
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Woman? I didn't see a woman ..."]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Woman? I didn't see a woman ..."]]"]] or, [[spoiler: "I saw no young woman...]]
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* ISeeDeadPeople: In the novel, the ghost is visible only to Arthur.
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* ISeeDeadPeople: In the novel, the ghost is visible only to Arthur. Curiously, the pony at the end of the book seems to see the woman and Spider definitely hears her.
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB, bordering on HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge.
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB, bordering on HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The WIB; the face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Woman? I didn't see a woman ..."]]
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* ApocalypticLog: Jennet Humfrye's letters to Alice Drablow, which conclude on a note of dire {{Foreshadowing}}.
* EvilDetectingDog: Spider.
* FacialHorror: Arthur finds the Woman in Black's face creepier and creepier each time he sees it; at best, it looks near-skeletal.
* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: After all, we know at the beginning of the novel that Arthur was widowed in his early twenties.]]
* GhostlyGoals: Type B.
* GhostStory: Obviously, but the novel opens with Arthur's family telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve.
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* QuicksandSucks: Played straight.
* QuicksandSucks: Played straight.
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just saw the film page, moving these there
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Kipps and his son are killed, but are reunited with Mrs. Kipps in the afterlife.]]
* DeathByChildbirth: Kipps' wife.
* HollywoodFire: Used when [[spoiler:the solicitor's office burns up]]. Kipps charges in to [[spoiler:save their daughter]], and comes out with little more than soot on his face.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[spoiler:One of the village girls, after drinking lye, vomits blood just before dying]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Kipps and his son are killed, but are reunited with Mrs. Kipps in the afterlife.]]
* DeathByChildbirth: Kipps' wife.
* HollywoodFire: Used when [[spoiler:the solicitor's office burns up]]. Kipps charges in to [[spoiler:save their daughter]], and comes out with little more than soot on his face.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[spoiler:One of the village girls, after drinking lye, vomits blood just before dying]].
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if any of these have been moved to the wrong places, I apologize, I didn\'t know about the earlier versions \'til now
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The stage play adaptation has now been going on for 20 years at the Fortune theater, making it the longest-running thriller in London's West End (at, co-incidentally, the West End's smallest theater). This play is a favourite of school drama trips, making sure the audience usualy has a group of easily startled kids who will scream in all the right places...
In 2011, [[HammerHorror Hammer Films]] is producing a feature film version starring DanielRadcliffe. Coincidentally, the 1989 version starred Radcliffe's onscreen father Adrian Rawlins.
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* JumpScare: All over the place in the stage play. Audiences regularly shriek out loud, and that's kind of the point.
* JustEatGilligan: Kipps has to review all of Alice Drablow's documents, a task that will take several days at least. This apparently necessitates him staying in the creepy haunted house over several nights to do so. Instead of, for example, reviewing said documents in the relative safety of the town.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Stage version only, with the actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB, bordering on HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge. [[spoiler: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...]]
* PersonWithTheClothing
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Older-Kipps.
* JustEatGilligan: Kipps has to review all of Alice Drablow's documents, a task that will take several days at least. This apparently necessitates him staying in the creepy haunted house over several nights to do so. Instead of, for example, reviewing said documents in the relative safety of the town.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Stage version only, with the actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB, bordering on HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge. [[spoiler: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...]]
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** All over the place in the stage play. Audiences regularly shriek out loud, and that's kind of the point.
** Used frequently and very effectively in the film version.
* JustEatGilligan: Kipps has to review all of Alice Drablow's documents, a task that will take several days at least. This apparently necessitates him staying in the creepy haunted house over several nights to doso. Instead so...instead of, for example, reviewing said documents in the relative safety of the town.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Stage version only, with the actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB, bordering on HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge. [[spoiler: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...]]
* PersonWithTheClothing
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Older-Kipps.town.
** All over the place in the stage play. Audiences regularly shriek out loud, and that's kind of the point.
** Used frequently and very effectively in the film version.
* JustEatGilligan: Kipps has to review all of Alice Drablow's documents, a task that will take several days at least. This apparently necessitates him staying in the creepy haunted house over several nights to do
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Stage version only, with the actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB, bordering on HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge. [[spoiler: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...]]
* PersonWithTheClothing
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Older-Kipps.
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The WIB, bordering on HighOctaneNightmareFuel. The face alone qualifies her for the post. She kills children whenever she appears, and takes a fiendish delight in using the deaths for revenge.
** [[spoiler:In the theater 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 theater version provides examples of:
* BadBadActing: Kipps, until about halfway through the first scene in his story.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* PersonWithTheClothing
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Older-Kipps.
** [[spoiler:In the theater 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 theater version provides examples of:
* BadBadActing: Kipps, until about halfway through the first scene in his story.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The actor being employed to take on Kipps' role and Kipps himself taking on the role of the people he encountered during the story.
* PersonWithTheClothing
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Older-Kipps.
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!!The film version provides examples of:
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Kipps and his son are killed, but are reunited with Mrs. Kipps in the afterlife.]]
* DeathByChildbirth: Kipps' wife.
* HollywoodFire: Used when [[spoiler:the solicitor's office burns up]]. Kipps charges in to [[spoiler:save their daughter]], and comes out with little more than soot on his face.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[spoiler:One of the village girls, after drinking lye, vomits blood just before dying]].
