Horror author, James Herbert has never had much luck with TV
adaptations of his work – his 1988 novel, Haunted started off as a TV
special for the BBC but the project was later aborted. However Herbert
may find things go a little more smoothly when Ultraviolet director, Jo
Ahearne adapts his novel, The Secret of Crickley Hall for the BBC.
BBC Controller Of Drama Ben Stephenson made the announcement
yesterday amid a bunch of new drama announcements at the Broadcasting
Press Guild lunch yesterday. .
The adaptation will be turned into three 60-minute episodes, set for
broadcast around Halloween 2012. The story is about a family who
relocate to a rain-swept house in a Devonshire town called Devil’s
Cleave – which sounds like a bad move already. It turns out that during
World War II, the village was decimated by a flood. Crickley Hall was
home to a group of poor orphans evacuated from London to live in
spooksville under the care of the sadistic Augustus Cribben, who
terrorised, starved and beat them. The orphans were seemingly washed
away by the flood and now their lost spirits haunt the hall, pursued by
the monstrous figure of Cribben.
One to look forward to then- and if the mini-series is a success then maybe we'll finally see the Haunted series as the teleplay still exists.
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