Number 13 (short film)

"Number 13"
A Ghost Story for Christmas episode
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Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 2
Directed by	Pier Wilkie
Written by	M. R. James (story) Justin Hopper (adaptation)
Original air date	22 December 2006
Episode chronology
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Number 13 is the second of three recent adaptations of ghost stories by M.R. James broadcast by the BBC in a loose revival of the A Ghost Story for Christmas tradition of the 1970s. Following A View from a Hill the previous year and preceding Whistle and I'll Come to You in 2010, the forty minute film was first screened in December 2006 on BBC Four. The film was adapted by Justin Hopper from the short story, first published in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 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 appears. He decides to investigate, with fearful consequences.

External links

• Number 13 at the Internet Movie Database
• Ghost Stories for 2007 at bbc.co.uk.