Two more volumes, the first containing Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas and The Ash Tree, and the second contain A lot of film horror has washed under the bridge since Jonathan Miller's superb 1968 TV chiller, and it was just possible that a new take could still prove effective if it approached the source material from a different angle.

A respected mediaeval historian and his protégé unearth clues to find the hidden treasure of a disgraced monk in an abbey library. We will publish your review of Ghost Stories for Christmas (5-DVD set) on DVD within a few days as long as it meets our guidelines. Each instalment is a separate adaptation of a short story, ranges between 30 and 50 minutes in duration, and features well-known British actors such as Clive Swift, Robert Hardy, Peter Vaughan, Edward Petherbridge and Denholm Elliott. After an infamous demonologist is ridiculed on a television programme, its producer soon finds herself targeted by malevolent supernatural forces. The first official Ghost Story for Christmas came when former documentary filmmaker Lawrence Gordon Clark adapted and directed The Stalls of Barchester, a single tale of the supernatural broadcast on Christmas Eve of 1971.All of the films in this first volume are linked by the author of the stories on which they were based, one Montague Rhodes James, about whom I’ll have more to say in a minute. I, for one, was certainly a little bemused by the decision to remake what remains to this day the finest made-for-TV ghost story. Brilliant series I just wish the BBC would employ other directors/storytellers with equally good ability to carry this on. The early ones based on M R James' stories are reasonably true to the originals, later ones are "inspired by" but still well worth seeing.

Others will disagree and indeed some have in the special features of this very set, and I'm fine with that. Use the thumbs up and thumbs down icons to agree or disagree that the title is similar to A Ghost Story for Christmas.Attempts to provide visual variety with occasional cutaways of the book being read or imagery described (wheat in the wind, landscapes, etc. Although, even he makes her a complicated character, hinting that she was popular with local farmers and the pagan fertility aspects that this implies. He also devotes a final paragraph to the 2010 remake, a more detailed appreciation of which is then supplied by Jon Dear, who admits to being dismissive of the film when he first saw it but has gained a new appreciation for it since. I saw most of these programmes when they were originally broadcast and have always wanted to see them again.

On the surface, there seemed to be no good reason for it beyond producing a version that was in colour, set in modern times, and whose image filled the by-then standard 16:9 frame (which it doesn't, as it happens, having a 2.This was also a feature of the DVD transfer, and as this HD master was sourced from the original negative, we have to assume this was a planned feature of John McGlashan’s cinematography. On reaching the hall, Stephen is greeted warmly by his cheerfully eccentric cousin, who seems particularly keen to confirm the boy’s age and the precise date of his upcoming twelfth birthday. This may explain why he is seated so that his face is in shadow, and the sound was appears to have been recorded with the on-camera mic – the acoustics of the room are less than ideal, and there is the sort of hum running quietly in the background that I tend to associate with camera noise. Abney (Joseph O'Conor)'s estate where he is haunted by two children who previously lived in the house. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

Leaving his ill and ageing wife in a care home, a retired astronomer revisits one of their old coastal haunts, but after discovering a ring on the beach is soon haunted himself.Haynes (Robert Hardy), which outlines his arrival in Barchester and his eventual ascension to the position of Archdeacon after his predecessor, the elderly Archdeacon Pulteney (Harold Bennett), takes a fatal fall down the stairs of his house. It's later, when the spectral Giovanni enters Stephen's room at night, that their presence takes an altogether more sinister turn, with a seemingly hypnotised Stephen pulled from his slumber by the eerie drone and jangle of the hurdy-gurdy that the mortal Giovanni once treasured.