Ghost Stories for Christmas

Christopher Lee reads the disturbing Victorian ghost stories of writer MR James. A century ago, it was James's habit to read one aloud by candlelight every Christmas Eve to a select group of students in his study at King's College, Cambridge. Lee tells the fearful tale of intrigue, murder and the haunted Stalls of Barchester.

Peter Vaughan (Straw Dogs, Our Friends in the North) stars as a doomed amateur archaeologist who pays a terrible price for his curiosity about an ancient Saxon legend. John McGlashan's extraordinary photography imbues the wide open Norfolk coastline with an uneasy sense of dread.

An orphan moves into the house of his older cousin, but is disturbed by a pair of ghostly children.

A respected historian and his protégé unearth clues to find the treasure of a disgraced monk.

A nobleman who will have no truck with superstition inherits a stately home overshadowed by a tree concealing an ancient curse.

When a traveller stumbles upon a signal box situated on a lonely stretch of country rail track, he is unable to believe the incredible story of its troubled occupant and their dark past.