Often the camera operator on his own films, the Oscar-winning director of "Traffic" had an idea for a first-person horror ...

Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man visited by the spirits of ...

Airing on Christmas Eve on ITV back in 1989, director Herbert Wise's adaptation of Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black represented the pinnacle of the British tradition of festive ghost stories.

Nesbit’s chilling short story Man-Size in Marble back to life in his seventh Ghost Story for Christmas. In her final days, author Edith Nesbit recounts the chilling tale of newlywed Victorians ...

Some were there to shop, but others, such as Bryan and Amanda Jones and their two children, were waiting for a show: The Holiday Light Show, a five-story ... displays a ghost of Christmas past?

Performed at the charming Colchester Arts Centre, the evening was a brilliant mix of eerie suspense and uproarious comedy.

I wanted to die. A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone airs at 10.15pm on BBC2 More TV reviews on theartsdesk This season is a liminal time, where we look backwards and forwards and think about ...

Unfortunately there’s a local legend that says two life-size effigies of knights perched atop graves in the local church have a habit of coming to life on Christmas Eve to march to their new abode.

Unfortunately they’re in a cottage said to be haunted every Christmas Eve by the stone ... puts it ever so reasonably, “Every ghost story should have a rational medical man to offset the ...

"I love Christmas ghost stories," says Éanna Hardwicke, 28, who has also appeared in A Very Royal Scandal. "At this time of year we're closer to the mystic or the supernatural." ‘In the period ...

Like the 1974 drama The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, part of the BBC strand A Ghost Story for Christmas. That film sees an antique collector haunted by a ghost, described in the drama as "a thing of ...