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Full of young man's bravado, a gentleman accepts a Christmas wager to spend the night in a notorious haunted house, number 90, located somewhere in the vicinity of Charleston's Battery in South Carolina. After an eventful night, he resolves to endure a second...but could it also be his last?

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is an omnibus collection of ghost stories. Many of these stories are time-tested classics. Montague Rhodes James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests.

Mr. Anderson viaja a Viborg en busca de algunos documentos para su investigación sobre la historia de la Iglesia de Dinamarca. Llega a una casa hotel, “The Golden Lion”, y se hospeda en el cuarto 12. Conoce al señor Kristensen, el dueño y gerente, y al señor Jensen, un abogado hospedado en la habitación 14, junto a la suya. El primer día, Anderson ve que no hay registro de una habitación 13, lo que es costumbre en Dinamarca. En la noche, Anderson siente que su habitación es más pequeña que antes, y por un momento cree que es por la poca luz.