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Following his piloting of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story Lot No. 249 last Christmas, the marvelous mind of Mark Gatiss is back yet again with another Ghost Story For Christmas, the special BBC spooky holiday tradition. This year, the co-writer of Sherlock will helm a tale based on E. Nesbit's Man-Size In Marble, which will follow Victorian couple Jack (Éanna Hardwicke) and Laura (Phoebe Horn) whose arrival in a quaint village is tainted by the whispered superstitions of their housekeeper.

BBC returns with another edition of A Ghost Story For Christmas, the spooky-themed series of films released every year around the holidays. Per Variety, Mark Gatiss returns to direct Woman of Stone, adapted from the E. Nesbit story. Previously, Gatiss fittingly helmed Lot No. 249, a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story. In addition to being a talented director, Gatiss is also known for starring in BBCs Sherlock as Mycroft Holmes. 2024s A Ghost Story For Christmas has been taken from Nesbits story Man-Size In Marble and follows a Victorian couple, Jack (anna Hardwicke) and Laura (Phoebe Horn). The synopsis is as follows:...

Writer and actor Mark Gatiss continues the Christmas ghost story tradition with a new entry in BBC’s annual A Ghost Story for Christmas anthology series. Variety reports that the filmmaker will helm Woman of Stone as the next entry.

Woman of Stone adapts E. Nesbit’s “Man-Size in Marble“ and follows a newlywed couple caught in a Christmas Eve nightmare.

In the holiday special, “The couple are settling into a small cottage in a quiet village when their idyll is overshadowed by the superstitious warnings of their housekeeper, Mrs. Dorman, and the legend of the village church’s tomb effigies – a pair of marble knights who are said to rise from their slabs on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses this is as mere folklore. But as the fateful night draws near, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura at home, all alone.”

The feature stars Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Jack Lorimer,...

Mark Gatiss is adapting E. Nesbit’s “Man-Size in Marble” for the BBC as part of its annual “’A Ghost Story for Christmas” anthology series.

Titled “Woman of Stone,” the spooky Christmas special follows Victorian newlyweds Jack and Laura.

“The couple are settling into a small cottage in a quiet village when their idyll is overshadowed by the superstitious warnings of their housekeeper, Mrs Dorman, and the legend of the village church’s tomb effigies – a pair of marble knights who are said to rise from their slabs on Christmas Eve,” reads the logline. “Jack dismisses this is as mere folklore. But as the fateful night draws near, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura at home, all alone.”

“Woman of Stone” stars Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Jack Lorimer, Phoebe Horn (“The Motive and the Cue”) as Laura Lorimer, Celia Imrie (“The Thursday Murder Club”) as Edith Nesbit,...