her lifelong fear of being buried alive, a theme which featured in her novel The First Time He Died, published in 1935. Adaptations The first film adaptation of White's work was of The Wheel Spins, renamed The Lady Vanishes. The novel was optioned to be filmed soon after publication in 1936, but shelved until Alfred Hitchcock took it up. Whilst The Lady Vanishes is primarily seen as one of the highlights in Alfred Hitchcock's career, he almost did not make the film, doing so only to fulfil a studio contract. The success of The Lady Vanishes brought interest in making more films from her books. In 1945, her novel Midnight House became The Unseen, directed by Lewis Allen. Shortly after came an adaptation of Some Must Watch, one of White's earlier novels. Again the name of the novel was changed and became The Spiral Staircase. It gained a Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nomination for Ethel Barrymore. In 1979 Elliott Gould did a film version. Commemoration In 2021, a blue plaque was to be erected on a building in Frogmore Street, Abergavenny, marking her birthplace. It gained support from the HistoryPoints project and the Abergavenny history society. Bibliography The Wish-Bone (1927) Twill Soon Be Dark (1929) The Eternal Journey (1930) Put Out the Light (1931) Fear Stalks the Village (1932) Some Must Watch (1933; filmed in 1946 as The Spiral Staircase; remade under the same title in 1975, and again for TV in 2000) Wax (1935). Expanded from the short story "Waxworks" qv. The First Time He Died (1935) The Wheel Spins (1936) (filmed in 1938 by Alfred Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes; remade in 1979 and again for TV in 2013) . Expanded from the short story "Passengers" qv. The Third Eye (1937) The Elephant Never Forgets (1937) Step in the Dark (1938) While She Sleeps (1940) She Faded into Air (1941) Midnight House (U.S. title Her Heart in Her Throat, 1942, filmed in 1945 as The Unseen) The Man Who Loved Lions (U.S. title The Man Who Was Not There, 1943) They See in Darkness (1944) Short stories "Old Man River". Reprinted, Best Mystery Stories (Faber & Faber, 1930) "Green Ginger". Windsor Magazine, March 1932 "Rain". Windsor Magazine, April 1933, issue 460 "Passengers". Raleigh News & Observer, 15 October 1933. Reprinted, Bodies from the Library. Volume 4 (HarperCollins, ed. Tony Medawar, 2021) "An Unlocked Window". The Novel Magazine, April