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''Whistle and I'll Come to You'' is the title of two BBC television drama adaptations based on the ghost story "Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad" by the writer M. R. James. The story tells the tale of an introverted academic who happens upon a strange whistle while exploring a Knights Templar cemetery on the East Anglian coast. When blown, the whistle unleashes a supernatural force that terrorises its discoverer.〔''(Whistle and I'll Come to You )'' on the Channel 4 film website〕 The story was first published in 1904 in ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary'', the first collection of ghost stories that James published based on tales he had written as Christmas entertainments for audiences of friends and selected students at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he was provost.〔Pfaff, Richard W., "Montague Rhodes James", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online Edition). Oxford University Press. September 2004. (). Retrieved 15 August 2010.〕 The first adaptation was made by the BBC in 1968. It was adapted and directed by Jonathan Miller and broadcast as part of the BBC arts strand ''Omnibus''.〔David Kerekes, ''Creeping Flesh: The Horror Fantasy Film Book''. London: Headpress, 2003. ISBN 978-1-900486-36-1. 42–44.〕 This production inspired a new yearly strand of M.R. James television adaptations known as ''A Ghost Story for Christmas'' (1971–1978, 2005–2006). A new adaptation of ''Whistle and I'll Come to You'', written by Neil Cross and directed by Andy de Emmony, was made by the BBC in 2010. Both adaptations use James' story as a basis, but alter a number of aspects of the tale.〔 ==1968 adaptation== Jonathan Miller adapted his 1968 version as part of the BBC arts strand ''Omnibus'', which consisted mainly of arts documentaries so the dramatic adaptation was an unusual move; David Kerekes notes that this probably explains Miller's documentary-like introduction to the film.〔 Ian McDowell notes that the adaptation itself changes a number of aspects of James' story, turning the academic, described as "young, neat and precise of speech" into a bumbling, awkward, middle-aged eccentric.〔Ian McDowell, "It Came from the BBC Vault", ''H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror'' No. 4〕 This adaptation was filmed on the Norfolk coast, near Waxham.〔(Bleak and Solemn ), ''Abstract dynamics''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whistle and I'll Come to You」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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