Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Robert Hardy, Clive Swift, Thelma Barlow, Will Leighton. Tastes are shifting. This is how long Aubrey has been narrating The Dead Room. But times are changing. Votes: 429 He talks of the “haze of distance” necessary for a good ghost story opening line, such as, “Thirty years ago. . As Aubrey Judd read about “a huge wet black gory hole”, his cavernous gob pre-echoed the ghost’s black eye sockets. More like this. The new and tantalisingly terror-filled ghost story for BBC Four will definitely have you wondering, ... Watch The Dead Room on Christmas Eve at 10 p.m. on BBC Four. The Dead Room follows earlier ghost stories penned by Gatiss for the BBC including The Tractate Middoth (adapted from the MR James short story of the same name) and … A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One between 1971 and 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four. Written and directed by Gatiss, the 30-minute film tells the tale of a long-running radio horror series of the same name. While cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon some 50 years earlier. A s non-patronizingly as he knows how, Aubrey (Simon Callow) has been trying to educate the millennial Tara (Anjli Mohindra). The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'. The Dead Room Mark Gatiss brings the Christmas ghost story tradition back to life with The Dead Room, a chilling new tale for BBC Four. Things are about to get creepy in The Dead Room (Picture: BBC) If you like your festive season to be sprinkled with a few spooky goings-on then look no further than Christmas Eve treat The Dead Room. The Dead Room was more clever academic exercise than an all-out horror. The Dead Room tells the story of a long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter and national treasure Aubrey Judd.

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