Mr. Wraxhall discovers an ancient manor inhabited by an aristocratic descendent of Count Magnus. Mr. Wraxhall discovers an ancient manor inhabited by an aristocratic descendent of Count Magnus. He ...

A star rating of 3 out of 5. "The one everyone has always wanted to do is Count Magnus, which eluded the great Lawrence Gordon Clark," Mark Gatiss shared in 2019, speculating that perhaps a screen ...

BBC Two's latest entry in its A Ghost Story for Christmas strand is Count Magnus, adapted from the M R James short story by Mark Gatiss – but those familiar with the original text will have noticed a ...

“At first they hear nothing at all. Then they hear someone scream, just as if the most inside part of his soul was twisted out of him.” With the nights drawing in, nothing thrills and chills more than ...

In the classic spine-chiller Count Magnus, a travel-writer’s over-inquisitiveness leads to a breathless, diabolical chase from darkest Sweden to rural Essex. Denmark is the setting for Number 13, ...

This time, in Count Magnus, based on James’s 1904 story, it was Jason Watkins. He played Mr Wraxhall, an ageing travelogue writer “possessed of some private means”, and a familiar James type: the ...

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