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MR James: Number 13 (Image: Greg Wise as Anderson and Tom Burke as Jenkins)
 

GHOST STORIES FOR 2007

 
A selection of ghost stories are being screened on BBC Four in December 2007, including MR James' Number 13 and The Signalman.

Saturday 15 December

THE HAUNTED AIRMAN

11.30pm-12.40pm; 2.10am-3.20am
Dramatisation of Dennis Wheatley's tale about a recuperating military pilot who sees frightening visions.
 Read more about the ghost story

Sunday 16 December

MR JAMES: A VIEW FROM A HILL

10.40pm-11.20pm; 2.30am-3.10am
Another chance to see this classic ghost story. When Mr Fanshawe borrows his host's binoculars, he sees an unsettling sight on aptly-named Gallows Hill - or does he?
 Read more about the drama

Monday 17 December

MR JAMES: THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER

11.40pm-12.30am
Robert Hardy stars as an ambitious cleric who decides to advance his career by murdering his archdeacon.
 Great Lives: Listen to Muriel Gray discuss MR James

Tuesday 18 December

MR JAMES: NUMBER 13

10pm-10.40pm; rpt 2.35am-3.20am
Greg Wise stars in this unsettling tale in which a traveller finds that the hotel he's booked into conceals a supernatural secret.
 Great Lives: Listen to Muriel Gray discuss MR James

Wednesday 19 December

MR JAMES: THE TREASURE OF ABBOT THOMAS

10pm-10.35pm
Michael Bryant stars as a historian who finds the clue to hidden treasure in an old stained-glass window.

MR JAMES: WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU

11.05pm-11.50am
Jonathan Miller's chilling adaptation of Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, starring Michael Horden as a hapless professor who finds a mysterious whistle on the bleak Norfolk coast.

Thursday 20 December

MR JAMES: LOST HEARTS

10pm-10.35pm
A powerful drama about Mr Abney, an elderly and excitable black magician, who preys sinisterly upon children.

THE SIGNALMAN

11.20pm-midnight
Adaptation of the Charles Dickens story, in which a hooded figure seems to warn a lonely signalman of an unspoken danger.
 Read a more detailed review

 
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Weird Wales
Strange tales, photographs and videos from readers all around Wales, plus Lionel Fanthorpe tells ghost stories

BBC History
Historical and biographical information about Charles Dickens

External Links

Dennis Wheatley
Tribute site dedicated to the thriller writer

Charles Dickens
More books by the celebrated author

Ghosts and Scholars
MR James biography, bibliography, details of adaptations and a newsletter

The Ghost Stories of MR James
Stories including Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad and The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

The Literary Gothic
More James stories, including The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral and A Warning to the Curious

Ghost Stories
A short course on ghost stories from the BFI, with further info about The Signalman and MR James dramas

A Guide to Supernatural Fiction
Another database, with hundreds of ghost-story writers' bibliographies

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