A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

29 mins | Horror | Dec. 14, 2025

For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower

29 mins | Horror | Dec. 14, 2025

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…
Producers BBC, BBC Studios, Adorable Media, BBC 2
Original title A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower
Directors Mark Gatiss
Writers E.F. Benson, Mark Gatiss

Cast

Tobias Menzies

as Roger Winstanley

Joanna Lumley

as Mrs Stone

Nancy Carroll

as Verity Gordon Clark

Ben Mansfield

as John Clinton

Polly Walker

as Mrs Clinton