Between 1971 and 1978, during the Christmas holiday period,
the BBC broadcast a series of dramas under the umbrella title of A Ghost Story for Christmas, most based
on stories by M. R. James and all directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. This December,
Spectral Press will be publishing its first hybrid/non-fiction book, The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence
Gordon Clark, in celebration of those classic short films.
Edited and introduced by Tony Earnshaw (Beating the Devil – The Making of Night of the Demon); Foreword by Mark
Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Sherlock,
First Men in the Moon, the forthcoming The
Tractate Middoth); plus all the M. R. James tales from which the dramas
were adapted, each prefaced by a new introduction by Clark.
Additionally, there will also be a reprint of an unfilmed
“Count Magnus” script by Basil Copper, as well as other material including
unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs.
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