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Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss is adapting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lot 249 as a Ghost Story for Christmas, according to Deadline.

Experiments into Egyptian relics by Oxford students leads to a horrifying possibility regarding Lot 249. The original story was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1892. The BBC last dramatised it on television in 1967, and it featured in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie.

Kit Harington will play Abercrombie Smith and Freddie Fox will play Edward Bellingham, alongside Colin Ryan (Boundless), John Heffernan (Dracula), James Swanton (Stopmotion), Jonathan Rigby (Father Brown) and Andrew Horton (Slotherhouse).

“It’s a serious delight for me to delve once again into the brilliant work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this time for the Christmas Ghost story,” Gatiss explained “Lot No.249 is personal favourite and is the grand-daddy — or should that be Mummy? — of a particular kind of end of empire chiller: a ripping yarn packed with ghastly scares and who-knows-what lurking in the Victorian closet.”