BBC Anthology Series ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ to Continue with Eerie ‘Woman of Stone’

Writer and actor Mark Gatiss (Dracula, A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story) 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, Phoebe Horn (“The Motive and the Cue”) as Laura Lorimer, Celia Imrie (“The Thursday Murder Club”) as Edith Nesbit,