Used to be a great tradition of Ghost stories being read and later being produced for television at Christmas here in the UK
This is one of the best,from the 1960s long before in your face CGI Monsters or Zombies,found it on youtube and post it for your edification.
It may seem a little slow at first for today's youth but bare with it,you will probably remember it long after you have forgotten, the latest Zombie slasher movie
enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j4MAzQiTxE

I thought the lead actor looked familiar and so I looked him up on IMDB and discovered that he was in the Shogun mini series as well as Where Eagles Dare. I love IMDB.

I think he's best known for A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum. At any rate, his face
came to my mind immediately on seeing the name,
so I have him well lodged in my brain from some
things he's done, probably all the B&W films from
the fifties...