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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.
Mark Gatiss is adapting E. Nesbit’s “Man-Size in Marble” for the BBC as part of its annual “’A Ghost Story for Christmas” anthology series. Titled “Woman of Stone,” the spooky ...
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).
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]
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas is a short film which serves as the fourth episode of the British supernatural anthology television series A Ghost Story for Christmas.Written by John Bowen, produced by Rosemary Hill, and directed by the series' creator, Lawrence Gordon Clark, it is based on the ghost story of the same name by M. R. James, first published in the collection Ghost Stories of an ...
The story was adapted in 1971 for BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas as The Stalls of Barchester. [2]A dramatized narration of the story with Sir Christopher Lee as James was produced by BBC Scotland in 2000 as part of the series Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories For Christmas, adapted by Ronald Frame.
A dramatized narration of the story with Sir Christopher Lee as James was produced by BBC Scotland in 2000 as part of the series Christopher Lee's Ghost Stories For Christmas, adapted by Ronald Frame. [7] In 2020, the story was adapted by Shadows at the Door: The Podcast into a full-cast audio drama. In this adaptation, Paxton's gender was ...