Things That Go Bump is a season of plays (often regarded as a trilogy) performed in 2008 by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn.

Haunting Julia was written following inspiration from Stephen Mallatratt's stage adaptation of Susan Hill's The Woman in Black, and premièred at the theatre seven years earlier.

His interest came from what he considered Mallatratt's ability to make audiences jump through good acting and tension rather than special effects.

The trilogy in its final form was produced entirely in the round, but all three of the plays have been (individually) performed for the end-stage at various stages in their respective tours.

In the play, Annabel Chester returns to her family home she fled when fifteen to receive the inheritance from her father.

She is blackmailed by her father's old nurse, Alice Moody, who claims to have evidence that Annabel's house trapped sister, Miriam, overdosed his medicine.

After the sisters destroy the evidence, the terrible truths about their pasts emerge, as does the true extent of a sinister plot.

It is set over the first Christmas Eve that Beth spends after her husband's death, where her self-pitying alcohol sister-in-law, Connie, her son Martin, and lovesick vicar David all doing their utmost to help her through it.

The original reviews of Haunting Julia were divided, partly along the lines of those who welcomed Ayckbourn's progression into more dramatic plays and those who preferred his older formula.

One thing that may not have helped was that it was a play written for the proscenium that was staged in the round, and consequently a crucial door was invisible to some of the audience.