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…
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…
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…
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…
1977 marked a departure for the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas with an original contemporary-set tale written specifically for the series. David Evans-Powell explores Stigma…
Graham Williamson essays The Ash Tree, the 1975 episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas, adapted by David Rudkin, writer of Penda’s Fen…
One of the more controversial episodes in the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series. Ellis Reed makes a personal exploration into 1973’s Lost Hearts…
1977’s A Ghost Story for Christmas marked the final film in the series to be directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. Stigma also heralded a change in style, as Adrian Pennington’s essay discusses…
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas was the first of two A Ghost Story for Christmas episodes to be adapted (or written as an original tale) by celebrated writer, John Bowen. Conrad Kurtz looks back at the 1974 episode…
Screenwriter Simon Allen offers a uniquely personal perspective on the work of M.R. James and interviews Luke Watson, director of the 2005 revival episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas, A View From a Hill…
Following several M.R. James adaptations, Lawrence Gordon Clark turned to Charles Dickens for the sixth A Ghost Story for Christmas episode. Johnny Restall explores Dickens’ classic haunted tale, The Signalman…