THE EASTERN WINDOW by EG Swain
We begin this year's selection of festive chillers with a tale written by EG Swain, a good friend of the great MR James who was inspired to try his own hand at crafting ghostly tales. The result was a remarkable collection called the Stoneground Ghost Tales, which blended Jamesian frights with a touch of Wodehousian humour. In this story, the long suffering vicar of Stoneground, Mr Batchell, discovers something strange about one of the parish church's windows...

OH WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU MY LAD by MR James
In the next of our ghost stories for Christmas, Mr Jim Moon reads one of MR James's most famous tales.

THE OLD PORTRAIT by Hume Nisbet
In the last of our ghost stories for Christmas, Mr Jim Moon presents an eerie tale from Victorian writer, painter and poet Hume Nisbet, a rather creepy story set on a cold dark Christmas Eve...