Pretty soon floorboards were doing their thing, doors wafting open, disembodied voices piping up. The dog had the right idea, as dogs will in the vicinity of ghosts, and ran off at the first opportunity. Crickley Hall in Devil’s Cleave did indeed represent a good choice if by good he meant draughty, unfurnished and glaringly haunted.
“It’s a good choice,” said Eve’s well-scrubbed hubby Gabe (Tom Ellis) as they toured their new home. Nearly a year on, the Caleigh family decided to ship out of London for some recuperative rural peace.
One second he was on the slide, the next he’d vamoosed. So The Secret of Crickley Hall, which has slung on a white sheet and crept into the nation’s living room, is a bit of collector’s item.Īdapted by Joe Ahearne (who also directs) from James Herbert’s 2006 novel, it tells of Eve, a telepathically inclined mother ( Suranne Jones) spooked by the disappearance of her curly-mopped son from a playground. And even though they shut the cellar door every night, it's always open again in morning. And Chester, their dog, seems really spooked at being away from home. Ĭrickley Hall is an unusually large house on the outskirts of the village at the bottom of Devil's Cleave, a massive tree-lined gorge - the stuff of local legend.
Perhaps here they can try, as a family, to come to terms with what's happened to them. Gabe has brought his wife, Eve, and daughters, Loren and Cally, down to Devon, to the peaceful seaside village of Hollow Bay. They need time and space, while they await the news they dread. With brooding menace and rising tension, he masterfully and relentlessly draws the reader through to the ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. It explores the darker, more obtuse territories of evil and the supernatural. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The Secret of Crickley Hall is James Herbert's number one bestseller.
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