Kipps

Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.

Hammer Films Options Rights to Famous Horror Novel THE WOMAN IN BLACK; Jane Goldman to Write Screenplay and James Watkins to Direct – Collider.com 2010

When Monty Kipps is invited to join Wellington, the same New England university where Howard Belsey teaches, the conflict between the two takes over the entire faculty.

On Beauty by Zadie Smith 2008

The mere mention of Monty Kipps is enough to send Howard into a tailspin of apoplectic fits.

Zadie, Take Three 2005

The mere mention of Monty Kipps is enough to send Howard into a tailspin of apoplectic fits.

Zadie, Take Three 2005

The mere mention of Monty Kipps is enough to send Howard into a tailspin of apoplectic fits.

Zadie, Take Three 2005

(Arthur Kipps in The Woman in Black has to be on his own, in the dark and cold, cut off from the possibility of rescue and invaded by a sense of despair for the black fear to really take a hold on him).

Hauntings « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

TJ Hughes's favourite novel, recalls my mother, was Kipps by HG Wells, "a story about a young shop assistant who inherits a fortune" – unlike him or his own children.

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

Bruce Sterling's "Join the Navy and See the Worlds" is less of a story than it is a portrait of a retired space-navy-man-turned-moon-explorer, Joe Kipps, who appears to be occupied on a new front: the delicate world of publicity and press relations.

REVIEW: The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan 2009

The retentive reader of Forster will relish the tricks by which Smith transforms the Edwardian tale of two families into her own story of the Belseys and the Kipps.

Ten of the best 2011

TJ Hughes's favourite novel, recalls my mother, was Kipps by HG Wells, "a story about a young shop assistant who inherits a fortune" – unlike him or his own children.

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011