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The story takes place on Christmas Eve. The " Scrooge -like" character Dr. Thorpe volunteers to attend the scene of a traffic collision , where a boy with acute appendicitis is trapped in a car. After successfully removing the boy's appendix in a four-hour operation, Thorpe gains an understanding of the "true meaning of Christmas".
No wonder there's an entire genre of Christmas-themed horror movies". [15] Matthew DuPée, author of A Scary Little Christmas: A History of Yuletide Horror Films, wrote that filmgoers "seeking an exhilarating alternative to the sickly sweet, feel-good Christmas movies found on the Hallmark Channel" explained the genre's popularity. [4]: 2
On 25 December 2007, the story was read on BBC Radio 4 by Derek Jacobi as part of the M R James at Christmas series. [ 6 ] On 25 December 2013, a version of the story, The Tractate Middoth , adapted by Mark Gatiss , was broadcast on BBC2 as part of the long-running A Ghost Story for Christmas series.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Christmas short stories" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
"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
Berenice (short story) Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2) The Birds (story) Black Canaan; The Black Cat (short story) Black Colossus; The Black Stranger; Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper; The Boarded Window; The Body Snatcher; The Boogeyman (short story) The Book (short story) Books of Blood; The Boy Who ...
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).
"Sharpe's Ransom" is a short story written by historical fiction author Bernard Cornwell. It features Cornwell's fictional hero Richard Sharpe. It features Cornwell's fictional hero Richard Sharpe. It was originally written for the British newspaper the Daily Mail , which serialised it during the 1995 Christmas season.