In 2005 the BBC revived A Ghost Story for Christmas that were so effective in the 1970s.
Dr Fanshawe an archaeologist arrives at the home of Squire Richards (Pip Torrens) and his surly butler Patten (David Burke.) He is meant to catalogue some items that the squire is selling off.
He borrows a pair of binoculars that were made by a strange local man called Baxter. Patten tells Fanshawe that Baxter became obsessed with an old Abbey and dug up the bones of the hanged men in Gallows Hill next to it.
The Abbey is now a ruin but Fanshawe can see the Abbey when looking through the binoculars.
He later thinks that a shadowy figure is haunting him. Fanshawe certainly becomes haunted for an inexplicable reason.
Bristling with atmosphere. The colour is supplied by the performances of Torrens and Burke. Apart from the eeriness, it does not amount to anything more. It is almost there was a pattern to these MR James stories.
