Local Gothicism: The Everyday Horrors of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith
Sophia Adamowicz explores the distinctive blend of the macabre and the mundane in the work of The League of Gentlemen’s long-standing writing and acting partners…
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The Horror Documentaries of Mark Gatiss
J.D. Collins dissects what makes Mark Gatiss’s BBC Horror documentaries so entertaining, and also how elements can be seen in his work…
‘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…
Horror in the Britcom: The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special (2000)
In a special festive edition of Horror in the Britcom, A.J. Black explores the singularly hilarious and disturbing portmanteau, The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special…
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…
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…
The Dead Room (2018)
Jon Dear looks at the 2018 episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas – this time eschewing the traditional M.R. James adaptation in favour of an original story, The Dead Room, written and directed by Mark Gatiss…