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Forgive me for talking about Christmas already, but I've just heard about what sounds like a delicious treat for the festive season. has written a ghost story called Crooked House for Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four, in the spirit of the MR James tales the channel has shown in previous years.

Mark Gatiss on the set of Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead

The drama will tell three stories in one, hopefully in the spirit of great portmanteau tales like . I have high hopes, as the channel did a great job with the very creepy A View from a Hill, although another MR James adaptation, Number 13, was less convincing. The casting is also interesting - featuring not only Mark Gatiss, Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing) and Anna Madeley (Brideshead Revisited), but also in his first dramatic role.

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