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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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As well as the season of goodwill to all, Christmas is also spooky season - a time for ghost stories, for the kind of spirits you don't drink from a glass, for a shiver that might be prompted by more than just the cold.
So what are your favourite spooky stories/shows/films that chill the blood at this time of year? |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Oh! I messaged a friend yesterday? Maybe yesterday because there's a new episode of IN9 out next week which is perfect for it. Oh and Mark Gatiss has a new show out the following night! Did you watch The Mezzotint last year OF? It was fantastic for that festive thrill.
I love Krampus the film, it's so good! I like rereading The Turn of the Screw as well - I think it's the wankster in me that adores Victorian Gothic literature (and studied it so I'm trying to refrain from writing various suggestions) and it really lends itself well to this time of year.
IN9 has a fantastic slightly morbid Christmas episode - The Devil of Christmas I think is the title. |
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"I think it's the wankster in me that adores Victorian Gothic literature (and studied it so I'm trying to refrain from writing various suggestions)"
On saying that I like this series for the same thing.
a discovery of witches |
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"Oh! I messaged a friend yesterday? Maybe yesterday because there's a new episode of IN9 out next week which is perfect for it. Oh and Mark Gatiss has a new show out the following night! Did you watch The Mezzotint last year OF? It was fantastic for that festive thrill.
I love Krampus the film, it's so good! I like rereading The Turn of the Screw as well - I think it's the wankster in me that adores Victorian Gothic literature (and studied it so I'm trying to refrain from writing various suggestions) and it really lends itself well to this time of year.
IN9 has a fantastic slightly morbid Christmas episode - The Devil of Christmas I think is the title. "
I have seen The Mezzotint! I worked through the old and modern Ghost Stories at Christmas last year - the ones from the 70s and the Mark Gatiss ones.
Recommend away! Victorian Gothic is a genre I should know more about (I'm currently reading The Woman In White). There's a really good anthology of Victorian gothic short stories called Fantastic Tales, which has stories by a lot of the big names - Poe, Hoffman, Hawthorne, Gogol, Le Fanu, Dickens, Stevenson, Henry James, HG Wells... |
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Two horror dramas originally broadcast at Christmas - The Stone Tape and the 1989 adaptation of The Woman In Black. Both very much worth tracking down.
The Stone Tape involves a group of scientists attempting to develop a new recording medium. They find evidence of a ghost in the old converted mansion they are in and decide to use the technology at their disposal to investigate it. The play is so well regarded that the theory of ghosts being echoes trapped in the walls of a building was already around but became known as Stone Tape Theory. |
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Nah, Krampus is the one that gets told round here (German side of the family) 
