Christmas Ghosts

Sunday December 24, 2006

‘It is Number 13, you see,’ said the latter.
‘Yes; there is your door, and there is mine,’ said Jensen.
‘My room has three windows in the daytime,’ said Anderson with difficulty, suppressing a nervous laugh.
‘By George, so has mine!’ said the lawyer, turning and looking at Anderson. His back was now to the door. In that moment the door opened, and an arm came out and clawed at his shoulder. It was clad in ragged, yellowish linen, and the bare skin, where it could be seen, had long grey hair upon it.
Anderson was just in time to pull Jensen out of its reach with a cry of disgust and fright, when the door shut again, and a low laugh was heard.

M.R.James, Number 13.

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Nigel Kneale

Friday November 3, 2006

The writer Nigel Kneale died on October 29. Although best known for Quatermass and the TV version of 1984 starring Peter Cushing, my particular favourite of his was The Stone Tape.

Made for TV in the early 1970s but now available on DVD, this really is worth seeing. A group of scientists investigating an apparently haunted house discover that something sinister has been recorded, or taped, in ancient stones used as building material. An accident causes the tape to be wiped, although this reveals something even more horrible lurking underneath…

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Stock Footage

Wednesday November 1, 2006

Whenever the 1960s are mentioned in BBC documentaries, you can guarantee that the same stock footage is going to be used followed by the same Talking Head.

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What I've Seen on Wallcharts

Friday September 29, 2006

This week The Guardian have been giving away free wallcharts every day. Again. And again I have bought The Guardian every single day, going crazy for wallcharts. I realised, not the last time they did this but possibly the time before, that I already had enough wallcharts. But I just can’t resist them.

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Family Trees

Thursday September 7, 2006

The new series of ‘Who Do you Think you are?’ has just returned on BBC1. It doesn’t seem that long since the last one was on. Celebs are obviously queuing up to appear on it. This week it was Barbara Windsor’s turn, ‘famous for Carry On and Eastenders’ as she reminded us.

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