A Warning to the Curious (1972)
Perhaps the best remembered of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series, Daniel McGachey explains why A Warning to the Curious still retains its ability to unsettle…
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The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
Richard Higson discusses why, of all the films in the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series, The Stalls of Barchester is the episode he keeps returning to…
Whistle and I’ll Come To You (1968)
Graham Williamson examines Whistle and I’ll Come to You, the unofficial first instalment in the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series…
The Signalman (1976)
Paul Childs explores The Signalman, the 1976 episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas adapted from Charles Dicken’s tale, and ponders the inescapability of fate…
The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
The first official episode of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series was an adaptation of the M.R. James’ story, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral. Lee Broughton explores the film in detail…
Martin’s Close (2019)
Mark Gatiss returned to M.R. James for 2019’s A Ghost Story for Christmas, adapting the writer’s 1911 tale, Martin’s Close. Graham Williamson explores the episode…
The Ghost Story for Christmas and the Christmas Ghost Story
Dr. Derek Johnston introduces Horrified’s retrospective with some thoughts on the ghost story for Christmas and the Christmas ghost Story…
The Ice House (1978)
With Lawrence Gordon Clark having absconded to ITV, Derek Lister took the reins for what became the final film in the original run of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Jon Dear explores The Ice House…
Martin’s Close (2019)
Peta Stamper’s companion piece to Graham Williamson’s essay on the BBC’s A Ghost Stories for Christmas episode explores M.R. James’ as a story and place of visitations, retribution and doubt…
The Tractate Middoth (2013)
Mark Gatiss took up the mantle of producing the first BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas for three years with an adaptation of M.R. James’ The Tractate Middoth. Paul Lewis discusses Gatiss’s 2013 effort…