The Woman in Black

Origin
Susan Hill's The Woman in Black is a horror novella written in the style of a traditional Gothic novel. The plot concerns a mysterious specter that haunts a small English town, coming when a child is about to die.

The story takes place in the memories of Arthur Kipps, a now retired lawyer, who in the past traveled to the Eel Marsh House to oversee the Estate of Widow Alice Drablow. The house is situated on a Causeway, a road on top of an embankment across a body of water, when at high tide it is completely cut off by the mainland. At the funeral Kipps sees a woman dressed in black with a pale face and dark eyes, whom a group of children are silently watching. While staying out the house Kipps begins to experience the hauntings seeing the Woman in Black and hearing screams coming out of the marsh. He soon discovers that Mrs. Drablow's sister, Jennet, gave birth to a son out of wedlock and Mrs. Drablow took him as her own. Staying with her sister Jennet became the aunt to her own son and after watching the carriage he was on get lost in the marshes, killing all onboard. After Jennet died she returned as the Woman in Black, arriving to presage the death of a child. Leaving, and trying to leave the hauntings behind him, Kipps marries and has a child. At a fair Kipps sees the Woman in Black and before he could react the specter scared the horse and carriage his wife and son were on. The horse bolts and runs into a tree, killing his son and fatally injuring his wife.

Effects
Opening produces a pea fog, fog mixed with air pollution creating a poisonous gas sulfur dioxide fog. Turns already surrounding fog deadly.