"13-as szám" egy szellemtörténet M. R. James. Először 1904-ben adták ki az antológia részeként Egy antikvárium szellemtörténetei.
#1 Adaptált hang felirattal elemi és középhaladó tanulók számára
Mr. Anderson was writing a book on the history of Denmark. He went to Viborg and wanted to study the history of the town. He stayed in an old building – The Golden Lion Inn…
#2 Eredeti verzió haladóknak
Among the towns of Jutland, Viborg justly holds a high place. It is the seat of a bishopric; it has a handsome but almost entirely new cathedral, a charming garden, a lake of great beauty, and many storks. Near it is Hald, accounted one of the prettiest things in Denmark; and hard by is Finderup, where Marsk Stig murdered King Erik Clipping on St. Cecilia’s Day, in the year 1286. Fifty-six blows of square-headed iron maces were traced on Erik’s skull when his tomb was opened in the seventeenth century. But I am not writing a guide-book…
#3 A történetet negyvenperces filmre adaptálták, és először 2006 decemberében vetítették a BBC Four-on.
