BritBox, the streaming service from BBC Studios and ITV, is offering the largest content of British TV ever and has now shared details about Lot No. 249, this year’s installment of the UK’s fan-favorite anthology series, A Ghost Story for Christmas. Back by popular demand, this year’s spooky festive program is an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story.
Debuting on BritBox later this month, Lot No. 249 is written and directed by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and will star Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”) alongside Freddie Fox (The Great).
The special follows a group of Oxford students, one of whom undertakes research into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, which becomes the talk of the college. As these experiments continue, strange occurrences abound in the mysterious Lot. No 249.
Subscribers can also check out other installments in this anthology series, including Count Magnus with Jason Watkins and The Mezzotint with Rory Kinnear. The massive complete list of titles from the A Ghost Story for Christmas anthology includes:
- Martin’s Close
- The Dead Room
- The Tractate Middoth
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: A View from a Hill
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: A Warning to the Curious
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lost Hearts’
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Number 13
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Stigma
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ash Tree
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ice House
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Signalman
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Stalls of Barchester
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: Whistle and I’ll Come to You
- Bedlam
- Midwinter of the Spirit
- The Secret of Crickley Hall
- The Small Hand: A Ghost Story
- The Blue Boy
Looking for more Christmas thrills and chills? Check out our “Christmas Horror Movies To Unwrap This December” list.
