Publisher's Synopsis
M.R. James's most famous ghost story, set in an East Anglian seaside resort in winter. Professor Parkin arrives on holiday with a commission from a Cambridge colleague to investigate an ancient burial site. He finds it, digs about, and comes upon an ancient, long-buried whistle. He blows it... and something terrible is summoned up... M.R. James, who died in 1936, was the author of two volumes of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, originally told to friends at Christmas over the firesides of King's College, Cambridge, where he was Master, and Eton, where he was Provost. A one hour BBC dramatisation of O WHISTLE AND I`LL COME TO YOU MY LAD, starring John Hurt, is to be shown at Christmas 2010.
