While there, Richards proposes to take Fanshawe out to the highest hill in the area and show Fanshawe the sights. The last three shows have been adapted and directed by Mark Gatiss, the noted writer/actor, and horror story fan.įanshawe, an academic, decides to take a holiday at the estate of Squire Richards, a new friend he made.
Six of the seven films have been adaptations of M.R. started again in 2005, and have made a film for 7 out of the last 16 years, with the newest seventh show, “The Mezzotint”, to run on Christmas Eve this year. After a period of 27 years without the Christmas ghost story films, the B.B.C. We looked at the five stories from James’ trove of ghost stories that were adapted in the initial run of the “A Ghost Story for Christmas” series, which ran from 1971 to 1978. started the tradition of showing new ghost story films each Christmas. Due to the good ratings and acclaim for “Barchester”, the B.B.C. adapted James’ “Oh, Whistle …” story for an anthology, and then for a Christmas Eve show, they adapted “The Stalls of Barchester”.
James was a Medieval Scholar and dean at Cambridge, and started the tradition of inviting his friends and students over for a Christmas Eve party and to hear his latest ghost story.
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