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A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas (2005)

December. 23,2005

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A Ghost Story for Christmas

Mark Gatiss, master of the macabre, presents chilling Christmas stories for a cold winter's night.

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A Ghost Story for Christmas

2005

Mark Gatiss, master of the macabre, presents chilling Christmas stories for a cold winter's night.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2005

10 Episode

Episode 1 - A View From A Hill

December. 23,2005

In fact Dr Fanshawe is not on holiday. As an archaeologist, he has been engaged by the squire to catalogue a private collection of local artefacts.

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Episode 2 - Number 13

December. 22,2006

"Number 13" tells the tale of when in order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition.

Episode 3 - Whistle and I'll Come To You

December. 24,2010

After finding an intriguing ring on a deserted beach, retired academic James Parkin soon becomes the victim of a supernatural revenge. But who is the avenger?

Episode 4 - The Tractate Middoth

December. 25,2013

"The Tractate Middoth" tells the tale of when a young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.

Episode 5 - The Dead Room

December. 24,2018

Long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter Aubrey Judd discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.

Episode 6 - Martin's Close

December. 24,2019

John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge', George Jeffreys. But this is not a cut-and-dried murder case, because the innocent young girl Martin is accused of killing has been seen after her death.

Episode 7 - The Mezzotint

December. 24,2021

A museum curator receives a very disturbing engraving that changes each time he and his colleagues look at it.

Episode 8 - Count Magnus

December. 23,2022

The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

Episode 9 - Lot No. 249

December. 24,2023

Follows a group of Oxford students, one of them becomes the collegiate talk of the town by conducting study into the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Can the horrible sack of bones known as Lot No. 249 come to life thanks to these experiments?

Episode 10 - Woman of Stone

December. 24,2024

Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura alone.

Mark Gatiss, master of the macabre, presents chilling Christmas stories for a cold winter's night.