Christmas time. Mistletoe and wine. Children singing Chriiiiiiistian rhyme. But what is this? Beneath the unrecyclable wrapping paper stirs a sense of unease. For here comes the BBC’s annual Ghost Story for Christmas, a brrr-inducing, Mark Gatiss-helmed adaptation of EF Benson’s The Room in the Tower, starring Tobias Menzies and Joanna Lumley.
The festive schedules have, of course, long played host to ghost stories; the season lends itself as readily to the shrouded and malign as the baubled and mulled. But which are the finest of TV’s many Christmas chillers?
