Nigel Kneale (1922-2006), the legendary Manx screenwriter and author, may be best known for creating Professor Bernard Quatermass in 1953 for the BBC, a character who "helped invent popular TV." A year earlier, Michael Barry was appointed the Head of Drama for BBC Television and Barry spent his entire first year budget hiring Kneale to become his main writer. In addition to the Quatermass trilogy, Kneale penned such critically acclaimed shows as The Road, The Stone Tape, and The Year of the Sex Olympics (all three scripts were included in the rare and highly collectible The Year of the Sex Olympics and Other Television Plays, 1976), as well as the films Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, and H.M.S. Defiant. His short story collection, Tomato Cain and Other Stories (1949), won the Somerset Maugham Award. [SIDE NOTE: A fantastic collection; if you have a chance to read it, do so; you can thank me later)
The original 1973 television recording of "The Road" is lost, but a 2018 adaptation by Toby Hadoke, and starring Mark Gatiss and Adrian Scarborough, was directed by Charlotte Riches.
Gatiss and Scarborough "star as a philosopher and a scientist investigating ghostly outbreaks in a country wood in 1768. Neither is quite prepared for the shocking truth that they uncover."
Here's a tale that will add to your Halloween week thrills, and perhaps send a quiver up your bones.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr32PYrFIg
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