The only thing he possibly loved more was the inch-scale hand-built railway that ran round his garden, which with huffing and panting and articulated pistons moved much like an ideal cartoon character: everything functional, everything with a purpose.

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Mr. McGreevy says television, and streaming Web television in particular, felt like the ideal medium to tell his horror story, with the possibility for long narrative arcs, gradual character development and more realistic dialogue.

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