Come Into My Home

Whistle and I'll Come to You is a supernatural short television film which aired as an episode of the British documentary series Omnibus. Written and directed by Jonathan Miller, it is based on the ghost story "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'" by M. R. James, first published in the collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), and first aired on BBC1 on 7 May 1968. It stars Michael Hordern as Prof. Parkin, a Cambridge academic who, whilst on holiday at a coastal East Anglian village, finds a strange whistle whilst exploring a Knights Templar cemetery exposed by coastal erosion. When blown, the whistle unleashes a frightening supernatural force. Its success directly inspired Lawrence Gordon Clark to create the supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas, which based the majority of its episodes on James stories. The series would produce its own adaptation of the story in 2010. Retrospective critical discussion of Whistle and I'll Come to You tends to regard it as a part of the later series, and likewise most home video releases of A Ghost Story for Christmas include Whistle and I'll Come to You.