Spooky Advent: 12th December

A Warning to the Curious by M R James. This one is based on my reading of the story rather than the TV adaptation for the Ghost Stories for Christmas strand (or NOT CHEATING as you may prefer to see it...). Another meddling antiquarian comes a cropper after digging up an ancient crown and then finds that he 'couldn't put it back', words I can only now hear in the velvet tones of Christopher Lee, who narrated the story for his own very wonderful short TV strand which was first broadcast in 2000 and can be watched here