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A few offerings for the festive season, to fill in time if you're at a loose end and there's nothing worth watching on the telly.
Here's the late, great Sir Michael Hordern reading the classic tale of a lost crown that should never have been unearthed.
And here's the same gent reading the classic tale of a witch, and a tree, and a house, and nocturnal scampering Things.
It's not just M.R. James at Christmas, of course. He had many worthy successors, though few ever matched him for ideas and execution. Among the inter-war authors James praised was A.M. Burrage, whose story 'Smee' has a nice seasonal feel, focusing as it does on Christmas games in a country house.
Something much more obscure, now - a 'lost' drama starring the great Irish actor T.P. McKenna in the role of a Blackwood-like ghost story author.
And finally, a different take on a similar theme - a Kingsley Amis ghost story adapted for Granada TV and starring Jeremy Brett, best known for his definitive Sherlock Holmes back in the Eighties.
Here's the late, great Sir Michael Hordern reading the classic tale of a lost crown that should never have been unearthed.
And here's the same gent reading the classic tale of a witch, and a tree, and a house, and nocturnal scampering Things.
It's not just M.R. James at Christmas, of course. He had many worthy successors, though few ever matched him for ideas and execution. Among the inter-war authors James praised was A.M. Burrage, whose story 'Smee' has a nice seasonal feel, focusing as it does on Christmas games in a country house.
Something much more obscure, now - a 'lost' drama starring the great Irish actor T.P. McKenna in the role of a Blackwood-like ghost story author.
And finally, a different take on a similar theme - a Kingsley Amis ghost story adapted for Granada TV and starring Jeremy Brett, best known for his definitive Sherlock Holmes back in the Eighties.
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