Kit Harington and Freddie Fox star in A Ghost Story for Christmas

Mark Gatiss’ adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle short story comes to BBC Two.

1881. Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different young academics: Abercrombie Smith, a model of Victorian manhood, clean of limb and sound of mind; Monkhouse Lee, a delicate and unworldly student from Siam; and the strange and exotic Edward Bellingham, whose arcane research into Ancient Egypt is the talk of the campus.

Could Bellingham’s unnatural experiments bring the breath of life to the horrifying bag of bones tagged Lot No.249?

An end-of-Empire chiller, Lot No. 249 stars Kit Harington, Freddie Fox, Colin Ryan, John Heffernan, James Swanton, Jonathan Rigby and Andrew Horton.

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 is an Adorable Media production for BBC Two and iPlayer, the one-off special airs tonight at 10 pm on BBC Two. Mark Gatiss can be seen as Larry Grayson in ITV1’s Nolly drama about the life of Noele Gordon from Wednesday, December 27th at 9pm. Also screening on STV.