Unresolved moral complexities bedevil victims in an unjust universe where decency is no protection from evil. Hill’s unemotional style envelopes the uncanny in prosaic realism, and her suggestive approach achieves superb uneasiness. Rage culminates in tragedy as a simple toy soiled by a child’s hatred visits revenge on the innocent. In “Dolly,” a future classic of the genre, Edward Cayley returns to his late Aunt Kestrel’s Iyot House, where a moldering china doll weeps in a churchyard. Urging him to self-annihilation, this wrathful spirit leads Adam to unravel an ancient crime that may involve his own family. In “The Small Hand,” antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow visits the grounds of a derelict house, where a small, cold hand grasps his own. These poetic and emotionally painful nightmares lay waste to the claim that the ghost story is dead and buried. The project has been helmed by Justin Molotnikov – the director known for his work on Poldark, Merlin and Atlantis.Ī co-production between two studios, The Small Hand: A Ghost Story will see Awesome Media making their first foray into literary adaptation, while their partners, Glasgow’s Two Rivers Media, have made their first stab at producing a drama.Spiritual malignance stemming from tragic pasts casts sinister nets of revelation and despair in two subtle, intelligent, and shocking modern ghost stories from Hill (The Woman in Black). The English actor has plenty of experience telling grizzly stories on TV – her resume contains everything from The Bill to NCIS, Lethal Weapon to this year’s season of How To Get Away With Murder.įans of The Woman in Black will find a familiar face in Adrian Rawlins, while Cal MacAninch (Holby Blue), Maryam Hamidi (Wild Rose) and The Full Monty’s Paul Barber will also lend their talents to the ghoulish adaptation.īehind the scenes, Hill’s acclaimed ability to jangle nerves and raise hairs has been translated into a screenplay by Waking the Dead’s Barbara Machin. Snow’s secret lover, Alice Merriman, will be played by Louise Lombardi. Many viewers will be familiar with her in green, scaly form from her recurring role on Doctor Who as Madame Vastra. Henshall’s fellow Scot Neve McIntosh will star alongside him.

Jimmy Perez in the BBC series Shetland, as well as his work on the hit Highland beefcake-fest, Outlander. Henshall is mostly known for his role as D.I. Scottish actor Douglas Henshall will take the lead role. Picture: Martin Fraser/Getty Images Who stars in it?

Douglas Henshall is a haunted man in The Small Hand.

Long-buried memories begin clawing their way back into Snow’s consciousness, further disturbing him, and yet he struggles to tear himself away from this sinister place.

From there on, the sense that strange forces are at play only grows with one inexplicable event after another.

The small hand by susan hill