 Susan Hill herself did not like some of the changes that Kneale had made to The Woman in Black . It has been observed that Kneale on some occasions operated a double @-@ standard with adaptations ; being unhappy when others made changes to his stories , but willing to make changes to stories he was adapting into script form . Referring to The Woman in Black adaptation , the writer and critic Kim Newman noted that : " He was very offended at the notion of Susan Hill using the name of Kipps from HG Wells as the hero of The Woman in Black , and so he decided not to use it and to change the hero 's name to Kidd . I 'm sure if somebody thought that Quatermass was a silly name and changed it , he 'd be furious ! " However , Kneale 's adaptations were by no means always unpopular with the original author . In 1991 , a four @-@ part version he wrote of Kingsley Amis 's novel Stanley and the Women , met with approval from the original author , with Amis regarding it as the most successful adaptation of any of his work . 
