But first he pays a visit to a museum curator (Gatiss himself) to show him a strange strange door knocker he’s dug up in his garden. “What would you do if you actually found yourself in a ghost story?” asks Ben (Lee Ingleby) in the third episode and he’s about to find out. In 2008 his love of the Amicus anthology films of the 1970s informed Crooked House, a mini-series broadcast on BBC Four over three nights running up to Christmas Eve with an omnibus collecting all three parts a few days later. James: Ghost Writer, co-produced the Gothic inflected Sherlock (2010-) episode The Abominable Bride (2016), co-wrote and appeared in the The League of Gentlemen‘s triumphant return to the small screen in December 2017 and penned the ghost stories The Dead Room (2018) and another James adaptation, Martin’s Close (2019). James adaptation The Tractate Middoth (2013) and its accompanying documentary M.R. He was, of course, involved in the League‘s brilliant Christmas special from 2000 and over the years has given us the M.R. League of Gentlemen veteran Mark Gatiss has become the unofficial custodian of that that fine British tradition, the BBC Christmas ghost story.
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