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Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Definitive Collection (5 DVD box set) RRP 49.99

certificate 15 Certificate
1968-2010
Runtime: 477 mins + extras
Colour / B&W
UK
Published/distributed by BFI
ISBN/EAN: 5035673009642
Region 2
Price: £49.99
(Including VAT at 20%)
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Ghost Stories for Christmas: The Definitive Collection (5 DVD box set) RRP 49.99 
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Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC's 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' seires was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s. For ten years viewers were chilled and terrified by atmospheric literary adaptations as well as sinister contemporary tales. More recently the series was revived, to critical acclaim, with three suitably spooky episodes derived from the pen of the master of the English ghost story, MR James.

This definitive collection finally brings together all of the 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' episodes, along with a number of essential extra features, and extensive booklets with essays, film notes and full credits.

Disc 1
Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)

Disc 2
The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
A Warning to the Curious (1972)

Disc 3
Lost Hearts (1973)
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)
The Ash Tree (1975)

Disc 4
The Signalman (1976)
Stigma (1977)
The Ice House (1978)

Disc 5
A View from a Hill (2005)
Number 13 (2006)

Extras
Disc 1

* Jonathan Miller and Christopher Frayling discuss the 1968 version (2012, 3 mins)
* Introduction to the 1968 version by horror writer Ramsey Campbell (2001, 16 mins)
* MR James' original story read by Neil Brand (2001, 42 mins)
* Ramsey Campbell reads his own MR James inspired story 'The Guide' (2001, 27 mins)

Disc 2

* Filmed introductions with director Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012)
* Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee - 'The Stalls of Barchester by MR James' and 'A Warning to the Curious by MR James' (Eleanor Yule, 2000, 2 x 30 mins)

Disc 3

* Filmed introductions with director Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012)

Disc 4

* Filmed introductions to The Signalman and Stigma with director Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012)

Disc 5

* Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee - 'Number 13 by MR James' (Eleanor Yule, 2000, 30 mins)
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