Told After Supper

by Jerome K. Jerome

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

from the 1891 Leadenhall Press edition.

TOLD AFTER SUPPER

by Jerome K. Jerome

Contents:

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,