Trivia – the theatre adaptation of Susan Hill's Gothic horror novella, The Woman in Black, holds the record for being the second-longest-running play in the history of the West End (the first being The Mousetrap). It is such a popular story that even with major plot and sequence changes, the 2012 movie, The Woman In Black, became a box office hit after its release. The title is now a brand, and any association with it is expected to have high standards.
A sequel to the movie was but an organically natural progression, and Susan Hill was the obvious choice to pen the story for....