Welcome to episode 28 of The Horror Double Bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something far greater than the sum of their parts

This week we are beginning our Christmas season, and discussing two films that are based on the work of M.R James. First up we have Whistle And I’ll Come To You, directed by Jonathan Miller from 1968 and then Night of the Demon from 1957, directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, and Niall McGinnis

Along the way we will be discussing the origins of the ghost stories for Christmas tradition, the works of MR James, and much much more

Sources

Radio play:

https://youtu.be/upE-BdMHHVw?si=kX7W3SpSt--TjFzk

https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/classic-gothic-ghost-stories/a-history-of-winter-tales-and-christmas-ghost-stories-to-make-the-blood-run-wintery-cold/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/plea-resurrect-christmas-tradition-telling-ghost-stories-180967553/

https://visitsleepyhollow.com/how-charles-dickens-stole-christmas/

https://www.history.co.uk/

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/12/16/ghost-stories-for-christmas

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-chilling-ghost-stories-became-a-christmas-tradition/

Whistle and I’ll Come to You

https://headpress.com/blog/2024/12/04/whistle-down-the-wind-an-extract-from-no-diggin-here/

https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/ghost-story-christmas-whistle-ill-come-you

https://www.webofstories.com/play/jonathan.miller/23;jsessionid=B9BEC49F95119602BDA6DFAC03EFD09D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_and_I%27ll_Come_to_You_(1968_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Miller

Night of the Demon

English Gothic by Jonathan Rigby

Jacques Tourneur The cinema of Nightfall by Chris Fujiwara

https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/52516

https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/127530/3/FINAL%20Rev%20Writing%20NoTD%20Article%20for%20HJFRT%20Alison%20Peirse%20080216.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Demon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Andrews

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000763/

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