M. R. James - Master of the English Ghost Story.

"Ghost Stories for Christmas" was a UK horror anthology mini series where horror legend Christopher Lee hosts and narrates a series of four half hour ghost stories all based on stories by M.R. James.

After finding an intriguing ring on a deserted beach, retired academic James Parkin soon becomes the victim of a supernatural revenge. But who is the avenger?

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.

"Mystery and Imagination" was a UK hosted horror anthology series running from 1966 until 1970 with host David Buck as "Richard Beckett". who was a romantic young Victorian adventurer always had a tale to tell.

Classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle. Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk horror.

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. The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'.

An archaeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister.

A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experiences terrible dreams in which he sees a young girl and boy who are missing their hearts.

The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of Medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an Abbey library. Studying a stained glass window they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced Abbot.

"The Ash Tree" tells the tale of when an aristocrat inherits his family haunted estate.

In fact Dr Fanshawe is not on holiday. As an archaeologist, he has been engaged by the squire to catalogue a private collection of local artefacts.

In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition.

While cataloguing the collections of Barchester Cathedral library, Dr Black stumbles across an intriguing box of papers belonging to former Archdeacon Haynes. In it, he discovers a hidden history of blood guilt and macabre supernatural revenge.

Dissatisfied with his hotel room, Professor Anderson demands to be moved to number 12 where he can work undisturbed. But, infuriated by the ghoulish noises made nightly by his neighbour, he is soon driven to investigate the diabolical secrets of the old hotel and its mysteriously vanishing room 13.

Peter Vaughan (Straw Dogs, Our Friends in the North) stars as a doomed amateur archaeologist who pays a terrible price for his curiosity about an ancient Saxon legend. John McGlashan's extraordinary photography imbues the wide open Norfolk coastline with an uneasy sense of dread.

Mr Williams, the curator of an university museum, purchases a modest engraving of a country house. But a black tint in the corner of the picture seems to resemble a figure and it moves, slowly revealing past horrors.

A witch condemned to death places a curse upon the Ash tree at the hall of her accuser that stretches down through the centuries and through the generations to invade the life of the ancestor who has inherited the estate.

A group of Scouts on an excursion are strictly told not to go near an old well that has been marked with a red circle on their maps. However, one disobedient boy pays no heed to the warnings and thus pays a terrible price.

An academic on holiday discovers a whistle amongst the remains of a monastery of the Knights Templar. It has the legend "Who is this who is coming?" engraved upon it in Latin. He will find out when he unwisely blows into it.

Mrs Anstruther wants to convert a neglected corner of her property into a rose garden. She tells her gardener to remove the old seat and an old post it was attached to. This unleashes disturbing visions for her and her husband.

Readings of classic ghost and horror stories aimed at older children.

"Lights Out" was a US narrated horror short story series.

Anthology series of dramatic works.

This documentary looks at the life and works of M.R. James, the Cambridge don famous for writing 'antiquarian' ghost stories.