Tobias Menzies has a bad dream for 15 years. Then the invitation arrives.
For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…
Acting
Menzies' haunted exhaustion — 15 years of bad sleep in every blink.
Direction
Gatiss channels lost BBC Christmas traditions with loving precision.
Production
29 minutes, not a second wasted. Masterclass in compression.
Director
Mark Gatiss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gatiss revived the 'Ghost Story for Christmas' tradition in 2013, continuing a BBC format dormant since 1978.
Based on E.F. Benson's 1912 story; Gatiss previously adapted Benson's 'The Tractate Middoth' in 2013.
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