EXCLUSIVE: Tobias Menzies ( The Crown , F1 ) and Joanna Lumley ( Absolutely Fabulous , Motherland ) will star in Mark Gatiss ‘ latest Christmas ghost story for the BBC .

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower , set in the inter-war years of the 20th century in the UK, is Gatiss’ eighth BBC ghost story for Christmas and has additional cast including Nancy Carroll ( The Crown , Father Brown ), Ben Mansfield ( Endeavour , Sister Boniface Mysteries ) and Gatiss’ recent Bookish co-star Polly Walker ( Bridgerton , Rome ).

Principal photography took place earlier this year on location in Cobham Hall, Kent.

The program, based on an E.F. Benson story, follows Roger Winstanley, who for 15 has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: An invitati

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