SOURCE: "Number 13" by M. R. James  (1904)

DESCRIPTION: "The men nodded, and the younger stepped forward, raised his crowbar, and dealt a tremendous blow on the upper panel. The result was not in the least what any of them anticipated. There was no cracking or rending of wood — only a dull sound, as if the solid wall had been struck. The man dropped his tool with a shout, and began rubbing his elbow. His cry drew their eyes upon him for a moment; then Anderson looked at the door again. It was gone; the plaster wall of the passage stared him in the face, with a considerable gash in it where the crowbar had struck it. Number 13 had passed out of existence. " ("Number 13" by M. R. James)

NOTES: The Golden Lion Inn in Jutland, Viborg, Denmark has a ghost in Room 13, a room that appears only at night. No one is quite sure what the ghost looks like but he is noisy and thrashes about. There is a good chance it is the soul of Bishop Jorgen Friis, a sorcerer who sold his soul to the devil in 1726.

HISTORY: James has a little fun poking at Ann Radcliffe: "...and Anderson's thoughts, like those of Emily in the Mysteries of Udolpho, began to "arrange themselves in the following lines..." followed by florid verse.