DVD: Ghost Stories from the BBC: Volume 4 (15)

Thursday 13 September 2012 13:24 BST

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“The countryside has become so isolated,” claims one of the creeps in The Ice House, and the English countryside appears to be a rather terrifying place to be in these six bewitching BBC short films from the mid-1970s.

The pick of which is The Signalman, adapted by Andrew Davies from a Charles Dickens short story, in which the eponymous railway employee (played by a suitably twitchy Denholm Elliott) is spooked by dreadful premonitions. Their influence on The League of Gentlemen seems obvious.

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