“Numero 13” è una storia di fantasmi di M. R. James. Fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1904 come parte dell'antologia Storie di fantasmi di un antiquario.
#1 Audio adattato con sottotitoli per studenti di livello elementare – intermedio
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 Versione originale per studenti avanzati
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 La storia è stata adattata in un film di quaranta minuti e proiettato per la prima volta nel dicembre 2006 su BBC Four.
