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  1. Warning to the Curious, A (2003)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50n minutes), £15.99

    A classic ghost story shown on BBC Televison in 1972. Based on a story by M R James, A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS tells the tale of three fabled crowns buried on the Norfolk coast which, according to legend,...

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  2. Haunted Seasons

    Date
    14 Dec 2016, 13:02
    Author
    Ben Hodson
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Haunted Seasons: Television Ghosts Stories For Christmas And Horror For Halloween by Derek Johnston, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 192 pages, ISBN: 978-1137298942 (hardback), $95. About the reviewer: Dr...

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  3. Signalman, The (2003)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 39 minutes), £15.99

    An adaptation by Andrew Davies of the short story by Charles Dickens, shown in 1976 as the sixth programme in the BBC’s annual GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS series. Strange things are being seen and heard by a...

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  4. Woman in Black, The (1989)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 101 minutes), £22.49

    TV adaptation by Nigel Kneale of Susan Hill’s celebrated ghost story, starring Bernard Hepton and Adrian Rawlings. Now deleted, this title can be obtained second hand both in the UK and USA.

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  5. Stone Tape, The (1972 Video)

    Director
    Peter Sasdy
    Producer
    Innes Lloyd
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A television adaptation by Peter Sasdy of Nigel Kneale’s classic ghost story, first broadcast in 1972 as ‘a ghost story for Christmas’ and repeated just once, in 1973. A team of scientists, eager to...

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  6. Ghostwatch (2002)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

    This video release of BBC Television’s controversial Halloween special marks the first appearance of the programme in any media since its first and only transmission in 1992. So convincing was this...

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  7. Whistle and I’Ll Come to You (1968 Video)

    aka: Oh, Whistle, And I’Ll Come to You, My Lad

    Director
    Jonathan Miller
    Producer
    Jonathan Miller
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A television adaptation by Jonathan Miller for the BBC ‘Omnibus’ series, of M R James’s story of the supernatural ‘Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad’. A tale of solitude, terror and the...

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  8. Christmas Carol, A (1977)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes ), £99.99 (combined with 3 other titles)

    A television adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story, keeping close to Dickens’ text, with John Le Mesurier as Marley’s Ghost, Bernard Lee as the Ghost of Christmas Present and Alvar...

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  9. Schalcken the Painter (2013)

    Director
    Leslie Megahey
    Subject
    Art; Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £19.99

    Based on the short story ‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalcken the Painter’ by Sheridan Le Fanu, this programme was originally shown in the Omnibus strand on BBC 2 during Christmas 1979. The story...

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  10. Green Man, The (1990)

    Director
    Elijah Moshinsky
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 151 minutes), £15.99

    Kingsley Amis wry novel was filmed as a BBC mini series in 1990 and starred Albert Finney in a classic ghost story for adults based in a haunted inn. He plays Maurice Allington, an alchoholic, sexual...

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