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"Told After Supper" by Jerome K. Jerome is a collection of humorous ghost stories written during the late 19th century. This work captures the festive spirit of Christmas Eve as it explores the tradition of telling ghost stories among friends and family during this time. The book revolves around the theme of supernatural encounters and the folkloric characters associated with them, all served with Jerome's characteristic wit and satirical flair. Once the scene is set in the cozy atmosphere of a Christmas gathering, the characters—friends and relatives—take turns narrating their own ghostly tales. Each story presents a blend of humor and pathos, showcasing eccentric ghosts and their often comical interactions with the living. From the faithful ghost of Johnson and his lost love, Emily, to a series of misadventures involving a miser's hidden treasure and other eccentric spirits, the tales reflect a lighthearted take on the ghost story genre. The prose captures the essence of camaraderie

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Introductory How the Stories came to be told Teddy Biffles' Story--Johnson and Emily; or, the Faithful Ghost Interlude--The Doctor's Story Mr. Coombe's Story--The Haunted Mill; or, the Ruined Home Interlude My Uncle's Story--The Ghost of the Blue Chamber A Personal Explanation My Own Story

INTRODUCTORY

It was Christmas Eve.

I begin this way because it is the proper, orthodox, respectable way to begin, and I have been brought up in a proper, orthodox, respectable way, and taught to always do the proper, orthodox, respectable thing; and the habit clings to me.

Of course, as a mere matter of information it is quite unnecessary to mention the date at all. The experienced reader knows it was Christmas Eve, without my telling him. It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story,

Christmas Eve is the ghosts' great gala night. On Christmas Eve they hold their annual fete. On Christmas Eve everybody in Ghostland who IS anybody--or rather, speaking of ghosts, one should say, I suppose, every nobody who IS any nobody--comes out to show himself or herself, to see and to be seen, to promenade about and display their winding-sheets and grave-clothes to each other, to criticise one another's style, and sneer at one another's complexion.

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