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…
‘Do you believe in ghosts?’ Revisiting Mark Gatiss’ Crooked House (2008)
Mark Anthony Ayling revisits Mark Gatiss’s 2008 horror anthology, Crooked House, and the ordinary – and extraordinary – fears contained within…
Runecaster – an interview with Jane Mainley-Piddock
Horrified’s Andrew Screen interviews Jane Mainley-Piddock about her forthcoming book, Casting the Runes: The Letters of M. R. James...
The Reeds
Paul’s M.R. James-esque story, The Reeds, is set around the town where he grew up. In it, a grieving widower seeks solitude in a small village, where the ancient past is never far from the surface. And at every turn, the mighty reedbed that lines the river estuary haunts him – huge, unknown and mysterious…
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…
Whistle and I’ll Come To You (2010)
The decision to re-adapt Whistle and I’ll Come to You for 2010’s A Ghost Story for Christmas divided fans of the series and M.R. James’ original story. Jon Dear explores Andy de Emmony’s effort…
Number 13 (2006)
Relocating M.R. James’ original story from Denmark to England, the BBC followed up the previous year’s A View From a Hill with Number 13. Graham Williamson explores Pier Wilkie’s 2006 adaptation…