![]() The viewers discovered what the Caleigh family will no doubt work out for themselves in episode two, that this used to be a wartime school for orphans where a regime of unspeakable cruelty held sway, underpinned by an anti-Zionist belief that the war was the product of a Jewish conspiracy. Pretty soon floorboards were doing their thing, doors wafting open, disembodied voices piping up. ![]() ![]() The dog had the right idea, as dogs will in the vicinity of ghosts, and ran off at the first opportunity. ![]() Crickley Hall in Devil’s Cleave did indeed represent a good choice if by good he meant draughty, unfurnished and glaringly haunted. “It’s a good choice,” said Eve’s well-scrubbed hubby Gabe (Tom Ellis) as they toured their new home. Nearly a year on, the Caleigh family decided to ship out of London for some recuperative rural peace. One second he was on the slide, the next he’d vamoosed. ![]() So The Secret of Crickley Hall, which has slung on a white sheet and crept into the nation’s living room, is a bit of collector’s item.Īdapted by Joe Ahearne (who also directs) from James Herbert’s 2006 novel, it tells of Eve, a telepathically inclined mother ( Suranne Jones) spooked by the disappearance of her curly-mopped son from a playground. ![]()
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