The Mezzotint turned out to be his best James adaptation to date and although it added enough newly minted material to upset the purists, it remains true to the – if you’ll forgive the word – spirit of the short story ( Gatiss keeps much of James‘ dialogue and actually gives us the golfing banter that James mocked and refused to relay to his readers/listeners, for example). Gatiss had been a semi-regular in British television’s Christmas schedule since his original piece The Dead Room in 2018 – The Tractate Middoth had been broadcast five years earlier but since 2018 he’s been behind Yuletide ghosts and ghouls with Martin’s Close (2019), Dracula (2020) and The Amazing Mr Blunden (2021). James‘ Martin’s Close, Mark Gatiss was back in A Ghost Story for Christmas territory with a screen version of James‘ The Mezzotint, first published in 1904 as part of his Ghost Stories of an Antiquary collection. Two years after the disappointing adaptation of M.R.
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