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A Ghost Story for Christmas Woman of Stone is a short film which is part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas . Produced by Isibéal Ballance and written and directed by Mark Gatiss , it is an adaptation of E. Nesbit ’s short story "Man-Size in Marble".
The Stalls of Barchester is a short film which serves as the first of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas.Written, produced, and directed by the series' creator Lawrence Gordon Clark, [1] it is based on the ghost story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" by M. R. James, first published in the collection More Ghost Stories (1911).
"Lost Hearts" was adapted by Robin Chapman in 1973 as part of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas strand, directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. The shortest of the adaptations, Lost Hearts was first broadcast on Christmas Day 1973 at 11:35 pm. [4] It starred Simon Gipps-Kent as the orphan Stephen and Joseph O'Conor as the much older
5/5 Mark Gatiss is continuing the seasonal ghost story tradition with an Arthur Conan Doyle adaptation, starring Kit Harington and Freddie Fox
M. R. James in about 1900. The first five films are adaptations of stories from the four books by M. R. James, published between 1904 and 1925. [8] The ghost stories of James, an English mediaeval scholar and Provost of Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, were originally narrated as Christmas entertainments to friends and selected students.
In the 1970s, the BBC broadcast an annual A Ghost Story for Christmas based on James' short stories. [1] It later produced Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories for Christmas in which Lee played James reading his stories aloud, and then a reboot of Ghost Story for Christmas, both series airing in the early 2000s. [5]
Image credits: palekissie #3. The worst Christmas for me was 9 years ago. That December my house came down with the Noro virus. We were all either sitting on the toilet or bending over a bucket.
The Ash Tree is a short film which is part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas.Written by David Rudkin, produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the ghost story "The Ash-tree" by M. R. James, first published in the collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), and first aired on BBC1 on 23 ...