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In between Funland and Psychobitches, Dyson did not have any lead writing or directing credits for on screen projects, but he remained busy. The intervening years gave him the opportunity to explore his passion for literary ghost stories with his short story collection The Haunted Book in 2012 and that rarest of beasts, a genuinely scary stage play Ghost Stories in 2010.

Co-written and directed with Andy Nyman, who as an actor also appeared in Psychobitches and as a magician co-wrote and devised a lot of Derren Brown's shows, Ghost Stories stars Nyman as a parapsychologist delivering a lecture that turns into a series of interconnected ghost stories. Paying tribute to the kind of portmanteau horror films beloved by the whole League Of Gentlemen team (and which inspired that show's classic Christmas special), Ghost Stories in particular evokes the Ealing classic Dead Of Night in providing a set of fun and chilling stories with a nasty sting in the tail.

The stage play broke records in its original run at Liverpool Playhouse before a hugely successful transfer to the West End and several successive revivals, which ultimately led to its screen adaptation. Premiering at the 2017 London Film Festival, Ghost Stories the movie is also written and directed by Dyson and Nyman, albeit without the staging tricks that made it so immersively creepy as a play.

Maintaining Nyman's role as the skeptic professor, the film version adds better known names such as Martin Freeman and Paul Whitehouse. It picked up some positive reviews on its premiere and will go on general release in cinemas in April, the first big screen work any of The League Of Gentlemen have written or directed since their own movie.