"Number 13" による怪談です M.R.ジェームス。 1904年にアンソロジーの一部として初めて出版されました。 古物商の怪談。
#1 Adapted audio with subtitles for elementary - intermediate learners
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 上級学習者向けのオリジナル バージョン
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 この物語は 40 分の映画になり、2006 年 12 月に BBC Four で初上映されました。