There is no room number 13 in the hotel. At least not during the day. At night, Herr Anderson's room seems smaller, and there is a strange wailing from next door.

It was inevitable that I’d do a classic M.R. James story for the podcast eventually. Many people think of Dickens at Christmas, but for the dedicated ghost story aficionado, Montague Rhodes James comes first. This spooky tale comes from his first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

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