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Crooked House
Tumbledown cottage, originally uploaded by reynard.
I’ve just watched Crooked House, Mark Gatiss’ fantastic ghost story trilogy, courtesy of BBC iPlayer.
The stories centred on the goings-on in a stately home from the Eighteenth Century through to the Twenty-first, and were all brought together with a suitably ghoulish ending.
Gatiss is clearly well versed in the genre and [...]
F# A# 39
It’s maybe not surprising that music from a year from winter’s collection often turns up in films, radio or television. This Christmas we’ve had a bit of the Christian Wallumrød Ensemble — I think ‘Wedding Postponed’ from A Year from Easter as the background music for an advert for Radio 4’s serialisation of A Christmas [...]
Christmas ghosts
Greenwich pathway blur #2, originally uploaded by reynard.
No sign of anything M.R. James related as yet, but BBC4 is promising Crooked House, a new short series of ghost stories written by Mark Gatiss, a writer in which we can every confidence. Sounds promising.