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The Stalls Of Barchester (1971) | Britain horror movie
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7/31/2025
While cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon some 50 years earlier. The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'.
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The End
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Good morning, Dr. Black.
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Good morning.
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The matter began, as far as I'm concerned, in the November of 1932, when I was cataloguing
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the library of Barchester Cathedral.
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It was a disappointing collection, and what volumes of value I found were much fallen into
01:49
decay.
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My task was scarcely furthered by the unhelpfulness of the librarian, at whose door I found myself
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bound to place the unhappy confusion that I discovered wherever I turned.
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I trust you prosper in your task, Dr. Black?
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It's profoundly uninteresting, I'm afraid.
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I sometimes wonder whether there shouldn't be a tax on authors.
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Mere poverty seems to be insufficient to deter them from writing.
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Now, if they had to pay for the privilege...
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A great many librarians would be seeking fresh employment, and there'd be far fewer books
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to catalogue.
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Have you nearly finished?
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With the numbered volumes, yes.
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In fact, I was just coming to ask you if there was anything else here you thought worth including
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my description.
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Perhaps I can surprise you.
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Nothing you haven't seen there, I think.
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What about the manuscript, Klaas?
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Hardly a fruitful field, I fear.
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Um, mute inglorious Milton, perhaps?
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Canon Marcel's annotation to the Epistle of the Thistle and Diacons, no?
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Professor R.D. Ellington's mathematical tract.
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I, uh, I think not.
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Well, Cyrus, of course.
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Cyrus?
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An epic poem in eight cantos, a product of a country clergyman's leisure.
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I wonder if he read it to his parishioners.
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I, uh, expect he did.
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What's this?
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I don't remember.
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Oh.
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Yes, of course, I'd completely forgotten.
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Papers of the venerable Archdeacon Haynes, bequeathed in 1894 by his sister Letitia Haynes.
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Haynes?
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Now, I know that name.
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I read something about it quite recently.
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Our old dean said the box would never have been accepted by the library.
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He kept it locked up in the deanery.
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He said it never would be opened while he was in charge.
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Strange.
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I've wanted to know what was in that box for years.
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Uh, you'd better have a look at it.
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Archdeacon Haynes.
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Now, Archdeacon where?
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Here, if you remember.
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Of course, yes, about fifty years ago.
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Now, I recently read his obituary in an old copy of the gentleman's magazine.
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His death, as I remember, was hardly becoming to the clon.
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Most unfortunate, the whole affair.
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And unexplained.
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I wonder if the box...
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I mean, one hardly likes to think.
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Ah.
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Do you wish me to examine the contents?
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I think it can hardly matter.
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Our former dean was adamant in his refusal, of course, but that was many years ago.
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Probably of no interest, anyway.
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And if the matter should be objectionable, or, um, obscene, well, we can leave it unpublished.
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Quite.
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I have the key.
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Well, I'll leave you with it.
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I trust you'll keep me informed should you discover anything of interest.
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Dr Haynes arrived in Barchester Close in 1872, where
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he took up residence with his sister as a junior deacon.
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The dignity of archdeacon had long been the object of his wishes, and there were few who
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denied that he was admirably suited for the position.
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His predecessor, Dr Paltney, however, lived to a great age, and showed no willingness to
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relinquish his post.
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Good morning, young men.
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Good morning, Archdeacon.
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Good morning, Archdeacon.
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Good morning, young men.
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Good morning, Archdeacon.
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Good morning, Archdeacon.
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Good morning, young men.
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Good morning, Archdeacon.
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Good morning, young men.
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Good morning, Archdeacon.
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Good morning, young men.
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Good morning, young men.
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Good morning, young men.
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Good morning, Archdeacon.
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Good morning, dear Lord.
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Now lest thou thy son depart in peace according to thy word.
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The archdeacon will be 84 tomorrow.
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Really.
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One would hardly believe it.
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A marvellous age.
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You're invited to a modest celebration in his honor.
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Long life, Dr. Pulteney. Long life.
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Many happy returns of this auspicious day.
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Lord, now let us all thy servants be brought in peace according to thy word.
08:08
Mr. Robertson was arguing most hatedly with Canon Arnold.
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Canon Arnold insists that we believe every word of the Holy Bible.
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Mr. Robertson cited Methuselah.
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How could anyone, he said, be expected to believe that a man had lived for 900 years?
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I find it entirely credible.
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And these are the days and the years of Abraham's life as he lived.
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One hundred and threescore and fifteen years.
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Catherine tells me there is an infection in the town.
08:44
Indeed.
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Three people in Buxton Street have died and two more families are very ill.
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The Archdeacon's late this morning.
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Good morning young man.
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Good morning, Archdeacon.
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The Archdeacon will be ninety on Monday.
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A marvellous egg.
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You are invited to a modest celebration in his honor.
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Long life, Dr. Pulteney.
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And absent friends?
09:28
It was not until Dr. Pulteney had reached the age of ninety-two that he unwillingly vacated his position.
09:36
They say that poor Miss Pulteney is quite overcome.
09:55
But now that her poor father is gone she has no one at all.
09:59
Of course the poor dear Archdeacon was very old.
10:03
But to go like that.
10:06
Well I blame the maid of course.
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The maid?
10:10
Yes that insolent girl Jane Lee.
10:13
Oh I never liked her.
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Well it seems a stair rod was missing and she never mentioned it.
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Poor dear Archdeacon set his foot quite on the edge of the step.
10:22
But you know how slippery the oak is.
10:24
You've remarked on it yourself.
10:26
I don't think so Leticia.
10:30
You say the funeral is for Thursday.
10:34
Poor Miss Pulteney.
10:36
Of course he had been in the position for a very long time.
10:40
Catherine was saying to me only the other day
10:42
that the affairs of the Archdeacon are beyond belief.
10:46
The dues upon Wingham and Westwood have been uncollected for nearly twelve years.
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And four chancels are almost past repair.
10:55
Dr Pulteney was a dear man but as an Archdeacon.
11:01
Catherine was saying it would take a man of your zeal and determination.
11:07
I hardly think it fitting at a time like this Leticia
11:09
to discuss the administrative defects of the late lamented Archdeacon.
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Nor can I feel it to be in anything but the worst possible taste
11:16
to speculate on his possible successor.
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My heart was saying it would take a man of hisarnahip
11:46
because of the fact there is no sécurité that has been in any cases.
11:48
Or the abidingini that has been in any cases.
11:51
He understood the Timothy's mother's mother's mother's daughter.
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So I don't think so Leticia gave birth to our children.
11:54
If God saw the Lord's mother's daughter.
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I've spoken to this beautiful wife.
11:57
A man today.
11:58
His mother received the child's mother's daughter.
12:00
And we're talking to the child's mother's mother.
12:02
The child was a child's mother.
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He opened and wore a child's mother's daughter.
12:05
And this went to his mother's mother and she said,
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to his mother's mother and her daughter
12:08
and she never saw it away.
12:10
O Lord, open thou our lips,
12:28
and the bums shall show forth thy praise.
12:40
O God, make speed to save us, O Lord, make haste to help us.
12:58
Have you discovered anything at all untoward, Dr. Black?
13:03
Nothing tangible so far.
13:06
Mainly devoted to cleansing the orgy in stables,
13:10
giving for time to reduce to some semblance of order
13:13
the innumerable errors, and so forth.
13:17
His conflicts with the organist?
13:19
Not, for once, successful.
13:21
He seems to have been a very busy man, our Dr Haynes.
13:24
Not perhaps the most popular figure in the cathedral close,
13:27
but very energetic.
13:31
No, it's a disappointingly blameless life so far.
13:34
For the first three years, at any rate,
13:35
he seems completely occupied with his administrative details.
13:40
And yet traces of uneasiness impinge,
13:43
rather as though his waking hours had to be crammed with activity
13:47
in order to keep the shadows at bay.
13:54
August the 30th, 1880.
14:00
I wish I were not leaving you for Brighton, dear.
14:04
The air will benefit you, Letitia.
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The damp and raw in Bartystone winter.
14:09
Brighton will put some colour into your cheeks.
14:11
Besides, you'll enjoy Cousin Henrietta's company, and she yours.
14:23
But will you not be lonely, John?
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Alone in this great house.
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I have my book to finish.
14:28
I shall be fully occupied.
14:30
I sometimes think we've been in Barchester too long.
14:36
Too long?
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Do you remember how we used to joke about old Dr Pulteney?
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Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
14:45
Letitia, I do not think...
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I'm only trying to say that perhaps you might retire one day.
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Not this year, perhaps, but sometime soon.
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You're not happy here, Letitia?
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That is you I'm thinking of, John.
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Have I shown myself to be unhappy or given others cause to think me so?
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No, John.
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Besides, I have my duty.
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You could hardly wish the affairs of the cathedral to fall again into that state of dereliction
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that my predecessor allowed.
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I had only thought...
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I should avoid...
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