Ghost Stories for Christmas - Season 0 Episode 13 The Tractate Middoth
Season - Episode
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1 - 1The Stalls of Barchester Dec 23, 2000 -
1 - 2The Ash Tree Dec 26, 2000 -
1 - 3Number 13 Dec 29, 2000 -
1 - 4A Warning to the Curious Dec 31, 2000
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0 - 1Whistle and I'll Come to You May 07, 1972 -
0 - 2Whistle and I'll Come to You Dec 14, 2010 -
0 - 3A Warning to the Curious Dec 24, 1972 -
0 - 4The Stalls of Barchester Dec 24, 1971 -
0 - 5Lost Hearts Dec 25, 1973 -
0 - 6The Treasure of Abbot Thomas Dec 23, 1974 -
0 - 7The Ash Tree Dec 23, 1975 -
0 - 8The Signalman Dec 22, 1976 -
0 - 9Stigma Dec 28, 1977 -
0 - 10The Ice House Dec 25, 1978 -
0 - 11A View From a Hill Dec 23, 2005 -
0 - 12Number 13 Dec 22, 2006 -
0 - 13The Tractate Middoth Dec 24, 2017 -
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0 - 15 -
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0 - 17Classic Ghost Stories The Mezzotint Dec 25, 1986 -
0 - 18Classic Ghost Stories The Ash Tree Dec 26, 1986 -
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0 - 20Classic Ghost Stories Wailing Well Dec 28, 1986 -
0 - 21Classic Ghost Stories The Rose Garden Dec 30, 1986 -
0 - 22Schalken The Painter Jan 01, 1970 -
0 - 23Martin's Close Jan 01, 1970
Overview
On his deathbed vicar Rant makes a secret confession to his niece Mary Simpson. Some twenty years later young librarian William Garrett is asked by elderly John Eldred to locate a book called 'The Tractate Middoth' but a mysterious cloaked figure takes the book from the shelves and Eldred panics and leaves. On a second attempt to find the book Garrett is confronted by the mysterious borrower, a rotting ghost, the encounter causing him to faint. He goes to the seaside to recover and, by coincidence, stays with Mrs Simpson and her daughter. He learns that she is the cousin of Eldred, who cheated her out of an inheritance when Rant died though a will in her favour was actually made and hidden in the pages of the Tractate Middoth . Eldred finally obtains the book but Rant, witnessed by Garrett, exacts vengeance from beyond the grave.

