Eel Marsh House stands tall, gaunt and isolated, above
the endless flat saltmarshes beyond the Nine Lives Causeway,
   somewhere on England's bleak East Coast. Here Mrs Alice
Drablow lived - and died - alone. Young Arthur Kipps, a
 junior solicitor, is ordered by his firm's senior partner to
  travel up from London to attend her funeral and then sort
     out all her papers. His task is a lonely one, and at first
Kipps is quite unaware of the tragic secrets which lie
   behind the house's shuttered windows.

             He only has a terrible sense of unease....

http://www.thewomaninblack.com/ (slightly adapted)