However, when he and his academic chums notice the picture changing into something altogether darker, curiosities are roused. Anyway, Rory Kinnear is the university don who collects antiques and receives through the post a dusty old mezzotint print which at first barely catches his attention. As ever, Gatiss stays true to the period in this hoary old tale of history, haunting and horror, stopping only to make the now customary, indeed seemingly obligatory concessions to diversity in casting and dialogue, which weren't in James's original text, all that stuff about allowing women into the club. Sure enough, this dramatisation of "The Mezzotint" went out late on Christmas Eve and was written and directed by usual suspect Mark Gatiss. James's ghost stories of the late 19th Century and also of the regular BBC adaptations of them, usually released at around Christmas time.
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