Season 3

2013 · 8 episodes · 4h 2m in all

In 2013 the strand was again revived, with Mark Gatiss acting as director and writer.

1. The Tractate Middoth
25 Dec 2013 · 35 min
A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.
2. The Dead Room
24 Dec 2018 · 28 min
Aubrey Judd, veteran radio presenter of The Dead Room, soon realises that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
3. Martin's Close
24 Dec 2019 · 31 min
Adaptation of a ghost story by MR James. 1684. John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys. However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case.
4. The Mezzotint
24 Dec 2021 · 29 min
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.
5. Count Magnus
24 Dec 2022 · 30 min
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
6. Lot No. 249
24 Dec 2023 · 29 min
An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.
7. Woman of Stone
24 Dec 2024 · 30 min
Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura alone.
8. The Room in the Tower
24 Dec 2025 · 30 min
For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…