Mark Gatiss is set to adapt Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story Lot No. 249, starring Kit Harington in the lead role.
Sherlock creator Mark Gatiss is returning to the world of Arthur Conan Doyle. Gatiss has penned an adaptation of Doyle's undead mummy short story Lot No. 249, which will star Kit Harington. Deadline reports that the classic tale of horror will be the latest entry in the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas series, an annual series of scary stories.
It was once traditional to tell ghost stories during the Christmas holidays, and Gatiss has attempted to revive that tradition; previous Gatiss A Ghost Story for Christmas productions include The Tractate Middoth, The Dead Room, Martin’s Close, The Mezzotint, and Count Magnus, all of which save The Dead Room were adaptations of ghost stories by British horror writer M.R. James. Says Gatiss, "Lot No.
What Is 'Lot No. 249'? Written in 1892 for Harper's Magazine by Sherlock Holmes creator Doyle, Lot No. 249 tells the tale of Abercrombie Smith, who begins to suspect that Egyptologist Edward Bellingham is reanimating an Egyptian mummy he owns and sending it to attack his enemies.
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