| Description | Exton's adaptation of the M R James classic ghost story Casting The Runes , produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV Playhouse. The cast including Jan Francis, David Calder (Star Cops) and Edward Petherbridge (Strong Poison). James was credited redefining the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story.'
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