Mark Gatiss talks about his adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's supernatural story Lot No. 249 as this year's Ghost Story for Christmas.

Some of Bellingham’s students, however, come to know Lot No 249 as their killer, the superannuated bag of bones creeping up on them unawares and inviting them to join him in the realm of the undead.

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Mark Gatiss, Kit Harington and Freddie Fox tease “wonderfully scary and frightful” Lot No. 249 An end-of-Empire chiller, Lot No. 249 stars Kit Harington, Freddie ...

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249 (BBC Two) is from the pen of Arthur Conan Doyle. Published in 1892, it’s a High Victorian tale set in an Oxford college where Egyptology is a new-fangled ...

A Ghost Story For Christmas beginnings It was back in 1971 that the BBC decided to start screening a ghost story on Christmas Eve. The first ever show was The Stalls of Barchester, by M.R. James ...

Having previously brought us adaptations of M R James’s ghost stories, reviving the BBC tradition inaugurated by Lawrence Gordon Clark in the 1970s, Mark Gatiss has now turned to a short story by ...

The BBC Ghost Story for Christmas is back – and what a wonderful, traditional gem it is. It’s an annual series of one-offs that began in the 1970s, and in more recent times has been revived by ...

Lot No. 249 is an Adorable Media production for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer (1x30). The Executive Producer for Adorable Media is Isibéal Ballance and the Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Mark Bell.

Lot No 249, Arthur Conan Doyle’s late-Victorian tale about a campus tormented by the undead, is the latest classic supernatural horror to be adapted for the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas ...

The BBC Ghost Story for Christmas is back – and what a wonderful, traditional gem it is. It’s an annual series of one-offs that began in the 1970s, and in more recent times has been revived by the ...