About this book
A masterful work of comic horror, Jerome K. Jerome's After-Supper Ghost Stories is a witty look at why Christmas Eve is so perfect for ghost stories and why ghosts love the Yuletide season. This edition contains a wealth of material about the author's life and works, notes and a bibliographic section. As they relax after dinner on Christmas Eve, the members of a family and their guests turn to telling ghost stories. These ghoulish accounts range from the melancholy to the macabre, and get increasingly bizarre as the ghosts leap out of the tales and make an appearance in the family's home. Fact and fiction, the real and unreal collide, until the reader is not sure who is haunting whom.A masterful work of comic horror, Jerome K. Jerome's After-Supper Ghost Stories is a witty look at why Christmas Eve is so perfect for ghost stories and why ghosts love the Yuletide season.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- After-Supper Ghost Stories and Other Tales
- After-Supper Ghost Stories
- Introductory
- How the Stories Came to Be Told
- Teddy Biffles’s Story
- Johnson and Emily or The Faithful Ghost
- The Doctor’s Story
- The Haunted Mill or The Ruined Home
- Interlude
- The Ghost of the Blue Chamber
- A Personal Explanation
- My Own Story
- Other Tales
- Evergreens
- Clocks
- Tea Kettles
- A Pathetic Story
- The New Utopia
- Dreams
- Notes
