A Ghost Story for Christmas: Count Magnus

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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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MyAnna Buring

Krister Henriksson

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Allan Corduner

Jamal Ajala

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An Englishman discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

Sweden, 1863. A country not much visited by Englishmen. An exception is the inquisitive Mr Wraxhall, whose innocent rummaging through the archives of the noble de la Gardie family takes a sinister turn.

Wraxhall becomes fascinated by the long-dead founder of the dynasty, the fearsome Count Magnus, a tyrannical ruler who dabbled in alchemy and who once made a strange journey to the Holy Land on most unholy business. Despite the warnings of his hosts, Wraxhall is drawn ever deeper into the Count’s dark world and discovers that the dreaded aristocrat may not lie easy in his tomb...

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