A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

The story of a first love, an unrequited love and a pregnant boy.

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.