''Number 13'' is the second adaptation of a

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by M. R. James broadcast by the BBC in an ongoing revival of the '' A Ghost Story for Christmas'' tradition of the 1970s. Following ''

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'' the previous year and preceding ''

Whistle and I'll Come to You "Whistle and I'll Come to You" is a 1968 BBC television drama adaptation of the 1904 ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' by M. R. James. It tells of an eccentric and distracted professor who happens upon a strange whistle whi ...

'' in 2010, the forty-minute film was first screened in December 2006 on

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. The film was adapted by Justin Hopper from the short story, first published in ''

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'' in 1904. The film stars Greg Wise as an academic lodging in room 12 of a drafty hotel in a small English cathedral town whilst assigned to authenticate papers which appear to date back to the Reformation. Having previously noticed that the hotel rooms jump from 12 to 14, after being awoken one night he is shocked to find the door to room number 13 has mysteriously appeared. He decides to investigate, with fearful consequences. The cast also includes father-and-son actors David Burke and Tom Burke.

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