Williams burns the picture however it reappears unscathed the next day, only this time the mezzotint is of his own building, and there in the corner…the dark figure approaches. Upon researching the history of the picture, it is suggested that the engraving depicts a vengeful poacher named Gawdy, returning from the grave to kidnap and murder the infant heir of his master who had him hanged. He sees the dark figure making its way across the lawn, entering the house and finally leaving with what is believed to be a small child. Williams starts to realize that the disturbing engraving is changing each time he and his friends look at it. However, Williams’ friends see intriguing qualities, including a figure in the corner.

To Williams, it is merely an uninteresting picture of a large country house at night. Williams, the curator of the university museum in Cambridge, who receives a mezzotint from a London art dealer. The Mezzotint follows the macabre misfortune of Mr. 2019’s Martin’s Close starring Peter Capaldi was the most-watched program on BBC Four when it debuted.

The tradition has been revived in recent years by Mark Gatiss, and BritBox North America will exclusively premiere 2021’s holiday haunt, The Mezzotint starring Rory Kinnear on December 24. In his time, James redefined the genre and many of his tales were written to be read aloud on Christmas Eve. James to carry on the tradition for modern audiences. In the 1970s, the BBC produced a number of adaptations of ghost stories based on the works of M.R. Ghost stories at Christmas are a tradition in the UK dating back centuries and particularly popularized by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present & Future that we know so well from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.

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