Agent Scully: Downplayed while Gabe clings to increasingly implausible mundane explanations for the unaccountable noises, he admits Crickley Hall's undeniably oppressive ambien.Bar regional relocation and some minor variations in plot and characterisation, it was faithful to the novel, and was praised by Herbert. In 2012, the book was adapted by The BBC into a three-part miniseries, written and directed by Joe Ahearne, perhaps best known for his prolific Doctor Who direction. Desperate for confirmation thereof, she approaches traumatised local psychic Lili Peel, who fears a malign presence to lurk within the house. A semi-conscious encounter with a familiar-seeming indistinct child-like figure persuades Eve that Cam may still be alive and trying to psychically contact her. On discovery of old-fashioned children’s toys locked away in the attic, kindly old caretaker Percy Judd recounts wartime evacuees billeted to the house, before apparently drowning in the great flood of 1943, suffered under the brutal discipline of brother and sister Augustus and Magda Cribben. Save for unaccountable floor puddles, perplexing noises, occasionally glimpsed ' white shadows' and the house's brooding ambience, the Caleighs comfortably adjust to village life. Almost a year following the disappearance of five-year-old son Cam, Gabe and Eve Caleigh take twelve-year-old Loren, five-year-old Cally and dog Chester, to semi-stately Crickley Hall, just outside the Devonshire village of Hollow Bay both for Gabe's new engineering commission and a much-needed change of scene. 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. Crickley 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. The Secret of Crickley Hall is James Herbert's number one bestseller.

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