The Little Stranger (2009)

Set against the backdrop of post-war austerity, Sarah Waters charts the physical and financial decay of Hundreds Hall, a once-proud Warwickshire estate crumbling alongside its aristocratic inhabitants. As strange disturbances plague the declining Ayres family, class resentment and buried domestic traumas manifest in terrifying ways. The tragedy lies in watching a venerable dynasty collapse under the weight of maintenance debts, social irrelevance and inexplicable malice.