A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249 review - Mark Gatiss's camp, creepy tale is absolutely bang on

The Sherlock creator's annual festive spookathon is predictably hammy and great. It's a clever take on Arthur Conan Doyle's mummy revenge story that's as tight as a pair of Victorian breeches Old College, Oxford, 1881: a mummified - sorry, rarefied - world of moustachioed men jogging around quads in white shorts. Men who understand the significance of men who drink "Scotch in the jug, Irish in the bottle". (Me neither.) Men who dabble in the dark arts of - shiver - "eastern studies". Basically, ...