A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

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A Ghost Story for Christmas

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Mark Gatiss presents chilling Christmas stories for a cold winter’s night.

Mark Gatiss, master of the macabre, presents chilling Christmas stories for a cold winter’s night.

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The Mezzotint

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In 1923, Edward Williams receives an engraving, but the picture is not what it seems.

1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.

1923. Edward Williams, gentleman and amateur golfer, lives an untroubled life as the curator of a small university museum. His speciality is the topography of the British Isles. So when an art dealer sends him details of an interesting engraving - a mezzotint - of an old country house, he’s intrigued.

When the picture arrives, however, it seems perfectly ordinary - until Williams notices a figure in the picture where there was none before. A cloaked figure, with a skull-like head and legs that are horribly thin. Soon, within the mezzotint, the figure seems to be on the move across the moonlit lawn towards the house with murderous intent.

Long-forgotten secrets rise to the surface as Williams and his friends summon all the rational forces at their command to confront the impossible.

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