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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.

THE HAUNTED AIRMAN
Dramatisation of Dennis Wheatley's tale about a recuperating military pilot who sees frightening visions.
 Read more about the ghost story

MR JAMES: A VIEW FROM A HILL

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?
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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

MR JAMES: NUMBER 13

Greg Wise stars in this unsettling tale in which a traveller finds that the hotel he's booked into conceals a supernatural secret.

MR JAMES: THE TREASURE OF ABBOT THOMAS

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

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.

MR JAMES: LOST HEARTS

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

THE SIGNALMAN

Adaptation of the Charles Dickens story, in which a hooded figure seems to warn a lonely signalman of an unspoken danger.
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