Aadyas cards

• “My spirits for many years have been

  excessively affectedby the ways of the weather.” (from ‘Christmas Eve’)FEAR, REVENGE, SUPERNATURAL, INNOCENCE, FAMILY

  - The reader's understanding of Kipps in the frame narrative is established in order to create tension and create intrigue as it makes us question what his trauma is.
• “fear in my breast… paralysed…

  frenzy of agitation” (from ‘Christmas Eve’, after the Ainley boys ask him to tell a ghost story and he has to leave the house in distress)FEAR, ARTHUR
• "I had... a true story" (from 'Christmas Eve', hints at Arthur's past)

  FEAR, ARTHUR
• “the business was beginning to sound like something

  from a Victorian novel” (from ‘A London Particular’, conveys Arthur’s arrogance when Mr Bentley first describes his task to go to Crythin Gifford)ARTHUR
• "Londoner's sense of superiority" (from 'The Funeral of Mrs Drablow', Arthur's retrospective view of himself at the start of the novella)

  ARTHUR, FEAR
• “

  not holding a prayer book… dressed in deepest black”, (from ‘The Funeral of Mrs Drablow, initial description of JH’)RELIGION, MYSTERY
• “t

  he thinnest layer of fleshwas tautly stretched and strained across her bones” (from ‘The Funeral of Mrs Drablow’, initial description of JH)SUPERNATURAL, FEAR
• “Mr Jerome looked

  frozen, pale” (from ‘The Funeral of Mrs Drablow’, when Arthur describes seeing the WIB at the funeral)FEAR
• “we seemed to be driving towards the

  very edge of the world” (from ‘Across the Causeway’, description of EMH)SUPERNATURAL, FEAR
• "a desperate, yearning malevolence" (from 'Across the Causeway', sees JH at the derelict graveyard by EMH)

  REVENGE
• "my legs buckled beneath me" (from 'Across the Causeway', after Arthur hears the pony and trap and death of Nathaniel for the first time)

  FEAR
• “those glittering,

  beckoning, silver marshes…. I had fallen under some sort of spell” (from ‘Mr Jerome is Afraid’, Arthur tells how he is attracted to go back to EMH to finish the job despite Mr Jerome’s fear)FEAR, SETTINGS, SUBLIME
• “’he is

  mine, mine,but canneverbe yours’” (from ‘The Nursery’, a letter from JH to AD)REVENGE
• “the child’s cry that rose and rose to

  a scream of terror”. (from ‘The Nursery’, the second time Arthur hears the death of Nathaniel)FEAR, CHILDREN INNOCENCE
• “I myself felt a desolation, a

  grief in my own heart” (from ‘The Nursery’, in the nursery)Arthur is able to feel JH's emotions - sense of pathos or sympathy; this is repeated in the next chapter, 'Whistle and I'll Come to You': "a distress mingled with utter despair")
• “

  A woman. That woman.” (from ‘Whistle and I’ll Come to You’, just after Arthur rescues Spider)FEAR
• “the clothes… left

  hanging like entrails” (from ‘A Packet of Letters’, the nursery has been trashed violently when AK returns to the house)REVENGE
• “her grief and distress together with her

  pent-up hatred and desire for revengepermeated the air around” (from ‘A Packet of Letters’, Arthur reviews the letters he took from EMH in the safety of Samuel Daily’s house)REVENGE
• “feverish delusions and

  nightmares” (from ‘A Packet of Letters’, Arthur suffers a nervous collapse at SD house)FEAR
• “

  malevolence and hatredand passionate bitterness” (from ‘The Woman in Black’, the look on JH face in the London park)REVENGE
• “the

  world went blackaround me.” (from ‘The Woman in Black’, Arthur’s response to seeing JH while Stella and Joseph are in the pony and trap, immediately before accident)SUPERNATURAL
• “He lay crumpled on the grass below it,

  dead.” (from ‘The Woman in Black’, death of Joseph)REVENGE, CHILDREN, INNOCENCE
• ”I had seen the ghost of Jennet Humfrye and

  she had had her revenge.” (from ‘The Woman in Black’)REVENGE
• "almost weeping in an agony of fear and frustration"

  FEAR
• "There was nothing else the woman could do to me, surely"

  REVENGE
• "ghostly pallor and a dreadful expression"

  SUPERNATURAL
• "I did not believe in ghosts"

  SUPERNATURAL
• "I have seen whatever ghost haunts Eel Marsh"

  SUPERNATURAL, SETTINGS
• "Countrymen... were more gullible"

  CLASS
• "Her eyes.. sunken"

  SUPERNATURAL, TWIB
• "The poor old woman was haunted night and day"

  ALICE DRABLOW INNOCENCE
• "Unpleasant sensation" "trapped in this cold tomb of a railway carriage"

  ISOLATION
• "Her wickedness understandable but not forgivable"

  REVENGE, SUPERNATURAL, SOCIETAL PRESSURE, TWIB INNOCENCE

  - Hill sympathises with Jennet Humphrye however believe her actions were unforgivable
• vying with one another to tell the most spine-chilling tale"

  FEAR, FAMILY
• "happy, festive meals", "I felt an uprush of well-being"

  SETTINGS, FAMLY
• "what was have to come after"

  FEAR
• "nowhere to be seen"

  SUPERNATURAL mysterious, foreboding aura
• "not inconsiderable former beauty"

  ARTHUR KIPPS
• "curious draining, sucking, churning sound ... shrill neighing and whinnying of a horse in panic...terrified sobbing"

  FEAR, SUPERNATURAL, FAMILY, ARTHUR
• child's cry that rose and rose to a scream of terror"

  THE MARSHES, FAMILY