Chapter Title Summary of Events Key Quotations
Christmas Eve We meet our narrator Arthur Kipps at his “Monk’s Piece is at the summit
home ‘Monk’s Piece’. He is middle-aged, of land”
retired and lives with his 2nd wife Esme. His “They are telling ghost stories…
family gather to tell ghost stories. Kipps is it’s a tradition”
disturbed by a memory. He decides to “I fought a bitter battle within
write about it. myself”
“After this holiday I would begin
to write my story”
A London Young and enthusiastic Kipps is assigned to “Children”- Mr Bentley fell silent
Particular the business of the late Alice Drablow’s for a few moments’
estate, Eel Marsh House, by his boss Mr “Sounds perfectly straight
Bentley. Mr Bentley tells him he must forward…does it not?”
attend the funeral and go to her house. He
is not revealing everything – making
excuses as to why he’s not attending the
funeral himself.
The Journey Kipps begins his journey to Crythin Gifford “…was feeling an unpleasant
North on the train. He meets Samuel Daily. They sensation of being isolated far
discuss about how Drablow had no from any human dwelling, and
family/friends. trapped in this cold tomb of a
railway carriage.”
The Funeral of We see Arthur acting quite snobbish, “She was suffering from some
Mrs Drablow believing that Londoners have a sense of terrible wasting disease…
superiority. At the funeral, he sees a extremely pale…thinnest layer of
woman dressed in “deepest black” who flesh was tautly stretched and
looked very ill – almost supernatural. Mr strained across her bones.” “Mr
Jerome “stopped dead” at the mention of Jerome stopped dead…looked
the “young woman with the wasted face” frozen, pale, his throat moving as
and fainted. if he were unable to utter”
Across the Kipps is taken to Eel Marsh house on a “What could I be afraid of in this
Causeway pony and trap by Mr Keckwick. He arrives beautiful spot?”
and admires its “uncanny beauty” and “her expression began to fill me
solitude as he romanticizes about Stella with fear”
and him living somewhere like this. Whilst “I was in a lather of sweat from
in a ruined grave yard he again sees the exertion and from the extremes
woman in black with a look of “desperate, of my emotions” “There was no
yearning, malevolence.” This fills Kipps sign at all of the woman in black,
with fear yet he doesn’t believe in ghosts. nor any place in which she
could’ve concealed herself”
The Sound of a Kipps tries to find Keckwick across the “What I heard next chilled and
Pony and Trap causeway but it becomes invisible because horrified me… the shrill
of the “thick, damp sea-mist that had come neighing...”
rolling over the marshes”, so Kipps turns “I put my head down into my
back. He hears the sound of a pony and hands and gave way to an
trap, the “shrill neighing and whinnying of outburst of helpless sobbing as
a horse in panic…another cry, a shout-a the full realisation of what had
terrified sobbing…it came from a child”. just happened overcame me.”
Kips returns to the house in utter distress. “only one door was locked”
He finds one locked door with no keyhole. “I felt an upsurge of horror as the
Finally, he meets Keckwick who takes him memory returned to me”
Christmas Eve We meet our narrator Arthur Kipps at his “Monk’s Piece is at the summit
home ‘Monk’s Piece’. He is middle-aged, of land”
retired and lives with his 2nd wife Esme. His “They are telling ghost stories…
family gather to tell ghost stories. Kipps is it’s a tradition”
disturbed by a memory. He decides to “I fought a bitter battle within
write about it. myself”
“After this holiday I would begin
to write my story”
A London Young and enthusiastic Kipps is assigned to “Children”- Mr Bentley fell silent
Particular the business of the late Alice Drablow’s for a few moments’
estate, Eel Marsh House, by his boss Mr “Sounds perfectly straight
Bentley. Mr Bentley tells him he must forward…does it not?”
attend the funeral and go to her house. He
is not revealing everything – making
excuses as to why he’s not attending the
funeral himself.
The Journey Kipps begins his journey to Crythin Gifford “…was feeling an unpleasant
North on the train. He meets Samuel Daily. They sensation of being isolated far
discuss about how Drablow had no from any human dwelling, and
family/friends. trapped in this cold tomb of a
railway carriage.”
The Funeral of We see Arthur acting quite snobbish, “She was suffering from some
Mrs Drablow believing that Londoners have a sense of terrible wasting disease…
superiority. At the funeral, he sees a extremely pale…thinnest layer of
woman dressed in “deepest black” who flesh was tautly stretched and
looked very ill – almost supernatural. Mr strained across her bones.” “Mr
Jerome “stopped dead” at the mention of Jerome stopped dead…looked
the “young woman with the wasted face” frozen, pale, his throat moving as
and fainted. if he were unable to utter”
Across the Kipps is taken to Eel Marsh house on a “What could I be afraid of in this
Causeway pony and trap by Mr Keckwick. He arrives beautiful spot?”
and admires its “uncanny beauty” and “her expression began to fill me
solitude as he romanticizes about Stella with fear”
and him living somewhere like this. Whilst “I was in a lather of sweat from
in a ruined grave yard he again sees the exertion and from the extremes
woman in black with a look of “desperate, of my emotions” “There was no
yearning, malevolence.” This fills Kipps sign at all of the woman in black,
with fear yet he doesn’t believe in ghosts. nor any place in which she
could’ve concealed herself”
The Sound of a Kipps tries to find Keckwick across the “What I heard next chilled and
Pony and Trap causeway but it becomes invisible because horrified me… the shrill
of the “thick, damp sea-mist that had come neighing...”
rolling over the marshes”, so Kipps turns “I put my head down into my
back. He hears the sound of a pony and hands and gave way to an
trap, the “shrill neighing and whinnying of outburst of helpless sobbing as
a horse in panic…another cry, a shout-a the full realisation of what had
terrified sobbing…it came from a child”. just happened overcame me.”
Kips returns to the house in utter distress. “only one door was locked”
He finds one locked door with no keyhole. “I felt an upsurge of horror as the
Finally, he meets Keckwick who takes him memory returned to me”
