FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: The House that Death Built

Some months ago Alan Friswell, the bloke who made the CFZ Feegee Mermaid and also the guy responsible for some of the most elegantly macabre bloggo postings, wrote me an email.

He had an idea for a new series for the bloggo. Quite simply he has an enormous collection of macabre, fortean, odd and disturbing magazine and newspaper articles, and he proposed to post them up on the bloggo.

13 GHOSTS?

I love a good ghost story. Although I was very young at the time, I was an avid fan of the Ghost Stories for Christmas that were shown on the BBC in the 70s, based on tales by M. R. James. James's only reference to thirteen in his stories was in the stort story Number 13 that was
adapted for TV a couple of years ago; but not, I think, with the same style as the seventies versions, that were usually brought to the screen by writer/director Lawrence Gordon Clark, who seemed to understand the delicacy and balance of James's writing.

Here's a tale of a real house in which the number thirteen had, it appeared, some significance, and would surely make a bloody good horror story.