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#DailyMotion #AGhostStoryForChristmas The Room in the Tower, 2025. Gatiss adapts EF Benson’s 1912 ‘spook story’ effectively reset in the London Blitz with flashbacks to gentler, terrifying times. Very effective indeed.

television programme still of two men in darkness facing us, one slightly behind the other

#YouTube #AGhostStoryForChristmas Number 13, 2006. Has a BBC 1990s sheen but pretty effective, as a fairly unpleasant academic slowly earns our sympathies as he blunders towards things that go bump in the night (- and laugh!)

a man in woodland looks through binoculars towards us

#Kanopy #AGhostStoryForChristmas A View from a Hill, 2005. Pleasant revival of the festive creeps, and back to MR James’ gently oblique horrors where peeking into the past isn’t appreciated by those already there.

a man and woman look respectably at a stone effigy in a church, a third figure stands behind

#Kanopy #AGhostStoryForChristmas Woman of Stone, 2024. On her deathbed E Nesbit narrates a story of misogyny across the ages. Superior, and yet again impeccably cast and performed.

three men stare at a covered object in an Egyptian mummy case

#Kanopy #AGhostStoryForChristmas Lot 249, 2023. Arthur Conan Doyle gets the Mark Gatiss treatment with an archetypal Egyptian touch - on your throat. A Mr Holmes makes a cameo.

a woman with candles and a man behind bars

#Kanopy #AGhostStoryForChristmas Count Magnus, 2022. MR James via Mark Gatiss and a nice little frissony cautionary tale; what did James have against curiosity?! Jason Watkins is excellent as a bumptious researcher.

a man looks up from his writing desk in the dark

#Kanopy #AGhostStoryForChristmas The Mezzotint, 2021. Mark Gatiss’ excellent version of MR James’ horrid tale is splendid, with a great cast on point.

a hooded figure stands facing us, at the end of rows of seated faces

#Kanopy #AGhostStoryForChristmas Martin’s Close, 2019. Mark Gatiss adapts MR James’ story of a strange case in front of ‘Hanging’ Judge Jeffries - the murdered girl appears after her apparent killing. Amusingly good.

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#Kanopy #AGhostStoryForChristmas The Dead Room, 2018. Mark Gatiss’ tale of an old ham (perfectly embodied by Simon Callow) flashbacking guiltily to a taboo ‘70s tryst, is quite bemusing but never really works in the second half.

a man stands in a timber corridor with particles of light in front of him

#Kanopy #AGhostStoryForChristmas The Tractate Middoth, 2013. Mark Gatiss’ version of MR James’ story is a combination of gentle nostalgia and nastiness. Pretty good.

TV Show: ‘Here’s this Swedish dude speaking English with an accent’
Us: ‘Hmm, he sounds Finnish’

He *is* Finnish. Max Bremer. Starred in the 2022 BBC #CountMagnus — #AGhostStoryForChristmas.

'The Room in the Tower': A Ghost Story for Christmas (2025) Review The nameless fear of something which we feel must be inevitable, always there lurking on the horizon, always coming closer, impossible to escape.

The newest entry of the BBC's 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' series was released a few days ago. Check out Kieran's review of the new short.
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Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched #TheDevilOfChristmas #InsideNo9 #TheStoneTape #AGhostStoryForChristmas #TheRoomInTheTower #InnesLloyd #TheProducer

Solidly into my savoury / sweet grazing stride now.
Time for #AGhostStoryForChristmas

I really liked The Room in the Tower, beautifully creepy and captured that uncanny dream-like quality - until the monster scare at the end. #aghoststoryforchristmas

On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1972 - BBC2 broadcast Nigel Kneale’s 'The Stone Tape'.
1973 - 'Lost Hearts' was broadcast on the BBC as part of its annual 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' series.
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I watched The Room in the Tower and The Ash Tree back to back, and one was a great bit of weirdo pastoral horror and one was random bullshit happening with crap cinematography. (They do both have stupid endings, but The Ash Tree is bonkers enough to make it work.) #AGhostStoryforChristmas

Would. #AGhostStoryforChristmas

Greeting Scholars!!

Tonight, we have a special reading of a spooky story, just for the holiday season!

Enjoy a spine chilling tale for Christmas Eve!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5rA...

#ENVTuber #VTuber #VTubing #HRWakefield #AGhostStoryforChristmas #GhostStories #Christmas #Holidays

Fair play to Gatiss, I thought that was pretty good #AGhostStoryForChristmas

Very creepy, we loved it! #aghoststoryforchristmas

I say it every year. Mark Gatiss is a master storyteller #AGhostStoryForChristmas #EFBenson

Could have done without that last shot of The Room in the Tower. Enjoyed it up to that point!
#aghoststoryforchristmas

I think some of the Gatiss ones have worked, some haven't. That was a miss for me. Battering you over the head with "IT'S SCARY!" is not the same as atmosphere. #AGhostStoryforChristmas

That one was for all of us who grew up with the 80s version of #TheWomanInBlack, wasn’t it? #AGhostStoryForChristmas #TheRoomInTheTower.

Well that was much better than last years #AGhostStoryForChristmas

I am finding this episode of #AGhostStoryforChristmas the most creepy yet, and I found Count Magnus pretty creepy

2025, the year Joanna Lumley went goth. #AGhostStoryForChristmas #TheRoomInTheTower #Wednesday

Christmas Eve spooks.
#TheRoomInTheTower #AGhostStoryForChristmas

On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
Many episodes of the 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' series.
1971 - 'The Stalls of Barchester'
1972 - 'A Warning to the Curious'.
2010 - 'Whistle and I'll Come To You'
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#aghoststoryforchristmas #mrjames