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‘Yet, in all this quiet, there was an acute, an acrid consciousness of a restrained hostility very near to us, like a dog on a leash that might be let go at any moment’

Join Behind the Door Productions for ‘An Evening of Ghost Stories by M. R. James’ at Charlton House, a one-man performance by Toby Burchell.

Act 1: ‘The Mezzotint’ follows Mr Williams, the curator of a university art museum, who receives a mezzotint from an art dealer. What Mr Williams comes to discover is that the picture appears to move every time he looks at it. But the story the mezzotint is showing is something far more sinister than Mr Williams first thought…

Act 2: ‘A Warning to the Curious’, where we follow Paxton, an archaeologist who inadvertently comes upon one of the three holy crowns of East Anglia. What he uncovers leads to something much more ominous…

Written by the finest author of the ghost story genre and narrated himself, James originally narrated these tales himself as an entertainment for friends. Now performed by Toby Burchell in a one-man show, these two chilling narratives make for the perfect traditional ghost stories.