It is, after all, a ghost story ... s a Wonderful Life’ than Krampus. We tell stories of very middle-class tragedies.” Not monsters eating children. Except, as much as American Christmases ...

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 ...

Mark Gatiss brings E. Nesbit’s chilling short story Man-Size in Marble back to life in his seventh Ghost Story for Christmas. “E. Nesbit’s Man-Size in Marble was the first ghost story I ever ...

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In fact, scary ghost stories actually have a significantly longer tradition around Christmas time, and not just from Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story “A Christmas Carol.” Telling ghost stories ...

Akhil Katyal talks about ways of grieving, the tricks of translation, and the quest for possible worlds in his new volume of ...

Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels ...

Warning: contains spoilers for “A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone”. The only women in the story are flesh-and-blood Lucy and Mrs Dorman – plus, in Gatiss’ reworking, Edith Nesbit ...

In spite of some fears last year that the series could be coming to an end, Mark Gatiss is back with a brand-new Ghost Story for Christmas ... four to see The Railway Children.

This year, for his seventh Ghost Story, he's adapting E Nesbit's Man-Size ... new generation has grown up in that way, lots of spotty kids saying, 'It's not as good as my Doctor Who,' by which ...