A Ghost Story for Christmas
Season 3
20138 episodes
In 2013 the strand was again revived, with Mark Gatiss acting as director and writer.
Episode 1
The Tractate Middoth
Dec 25, 201335m
A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.
Episode 2
The Dead Room
Dec 24, 201828m
Aubrey Judd, veteran radio presenter of The Dead Room, soon realises that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
Episode 3
Martin's Close
Dec 24, 201931m
Adaptation of a ghost story by MR James. 1684. John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys. However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case.
Episode 4
The Mezzotint
Dec 24, 202129m
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.
Episode 5
Count Magnus
Dec 24, 202230m
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
Episode 6
Lot No. 249
Dec 24, 202329m
An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.
Episode 7
Woman of Stone
Dec 24, 202430m
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.
Episode 8
The Room in the Tower
Dec 24, 202530m
For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…