Novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971.
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Adrian Rawlins, the actor best known for playing Arthur Kidd in The Woman in Black (1989) and James Potter in the Harry Potter films currently lives in Hornsea.
Both the 1989 television adaptation of Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black and the 2012 film adaptation of the same used the island's causeway as the location for the fictional Nine Lives Causeway.
The novels set in 1868 center around young inventor Frank Rude, Jr., (a parody of dime novel hero Frank Reade, Jr.), his cousin Charlie Bull, his sister Inanna Rude, Denver Doll the Detective Queen, the orphans PS and Kurt Wagner, Bessie Little the Masked Rider, photographer Eadweard Muybridge, and the detective and vigilante the Woman in Black.