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Monday, December 23, 2024

CHRISTMAS EVE GHOST STORY: THE CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957)

One of the ghost stories M. R. James read to his friends and students on Christmas Eve was "Casting the Runes," which was made into the 1957 horror flick The Curse of the Demon, directed by Jacques Tourneur, and featuring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, and Maurice Denham.  The film, while not as shudder-worthy as James's original tale, Curse of the Demon remains a little gem...and, perhaps, a good choice for Christmas Eve film.


https://archive.org/details/curse-of-the-demon


And. for those who really want to get into the Christmas Eve ghost story spirit (see what I did just there?  I'm so clever), here is M. R. James's original story:

https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/james-runes/james-runes-00-h.html


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