At Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart, Ray Newman has suggestions for when you’ve run out of official BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas eeriness. “The short films and television episodes listed below aren’t all ghost stories. And they weren’t all produced by the BBC.
Some are lighter, some are darker. Some are quite cinematic, others distinctly low-budget studio productions.
I’ve chosen them because they trigger in me something of the same feeling I get from, say, ‘Lost Hearts’, an M.R. James adaptation with a period setting, or from ‘Stigma’, which has an original story and a contemporary setting.”
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