All sorts of animals have been kept as pets over the centuries. We know of sparrows in Catullus and John Skelton. There is a badger with a collar in a fresco by Signorelli – probably not much more biddable than the lobster Gerard de Nerval supposedly took for walks in Paris. The word ‘puss’ seems
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Half a century after the first official Ghost Story for Christmas, and with Mark Gatiss’s latest one premiering this December, we look back at the M.R. James adaptation that started it all: Lawrence Gordon Clark’s The Stalls of Barchester.