A Fear Beyond Fear

We all know the stories and we all know at least one film or TV adaptation. But what what about the many, many other ghost stories which give us a similar frisson? The next two episodes will deal with some of these. 

Running parallel to the dapper, handsome count of stage and screen, this alternative take on the noble vampire -- bald, hunched, rat-toothed -- has haunted cinema history for more than a century, starting with F.W. Murnau's unauthorized 1922 use of Bram Stoker's story.

From the desolate shores of Suffolk coastal town, Felixstowe, M.R. James expert John Carpenter talks to me about the author's most lurid tale.  

Borley Rectory, a whirlpool of alleged supernatural occurrences and all too human drama.