Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play BBC Ghost Stories The Stalls of Barchester A Warning to the Curious Two films by Lawrence Gordon Clark As a Christmas treat in the late 1960s & 70s the BBC produced adaptations of ghost stories based on the works of M R James the Cambridge academic & author of some of the most spine-tingling tales in the English language which were broadcast to terrified viewers in the dead of winter This was a tradition that was briefly revived by the BBC between 2007 & 2010 These adaptations which have a subtlety & style all of their own have been a major influence on many contemporary British horror filmmakers & have come to be some of the much sought after British TV titles by their legions of eager fans The Stalls of Barchester (1971) While cataloguing the collection of Barchester Cathedral library Dr Black stumbles across an intriguing box of papers belonging to former Archdeacon Haynes In it he discovers a hidden history of blood guilt & macabre supernatural revenge With its superb cast & beautiful choral accompaniment by Norwich Cathedral choir Lawrence Gordon Clark s (Harry s Game) evocative adaptation of James short story inspired the BBC&s popular 1970s series A Ghost Story for Christmas A Warning to the Curious (1972) The second of Clark&s M R James adaptations for the BBC features Peter Vaughan (Straw Dogs Our Friends in the North) as a doomed amateur archaeologist who pays a terrible price for his curiosity about an ancient Saxon legend Special features Introduction to The Stalls of Barchester by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012 10 mins) Introduction to A Warning to the Curious by Lawrence Gordon Clark (2012 12 mins) Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee & The Stalls of Barchester& by M R James (Eleanor Yule 2000 30 mins) Christopher Lee recreates M R James famous soirees at which the antiquary would read his tales of the supernatural to eager undergraduates Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee &A Warning to the Curious& by M R James (Eleanor Yule 2000 30 mins) dramatic reconstruction of one of the author&s Christmas readings