When you are away from the city, camping in the woods with your family and friends, it is fun to have a good collection of ...

Mark Gatiss brings E. Nesbit’s chilling short story Man-Size in Marble back to life in his seventh Ghost Story for Christmas. In her final days, author Edith Nesbit recounts the chilling tale of ...

children’s stories, ghost stories. Talk us through Jack - who is he, how does he fit into the story and what did you find interesting about playing him? He’s an aspiring artist, a bit of a ...

was the first ghost story I ever read. I was ­seven years old – and it terrified me. First published in 1893, around a decade before Nesbit’s better-known works such as Five Children and It ...

But in a first for the strand, this year's Ghost Story for Christmas is based on a story by a female writer – Edith Nesbit, best known for novels The Railway Children and Five Children and It.

I am sure you also remember that line that seems somewhat out of place: “…and scary ghost stories from Christmases long, long ago.” Believe it or not, it was once quite common to hear ghost ...