Told After Supper
About this book
This is a ghost story book. Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood. There is a good deal of similarity about our ghostly experiences; but this of course is not our fault but the fault ghosts, who never will try any new performances, but always will keep steadily to old, safe business. The consequence is that, when you have been at one Christmas Eve party, and heard six people relate their adventures with spirits, you do not require to hear any more ghost stories. To listen to any further ghost stories after that would be like sitting out two farcical comedies, or taking in two comic journals; the repetition would become wearisome.
Reader Profile
3.8/5 · 82683 readers · 42 pages · ≈ 47 min · Challenging
How long does it take to read Told After Supper?
About ≈ 47 min — 42 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Told After Supper?
42 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Told After Supper?
It sits on the Ghost Stories, Short Stories, Fiction shelves.
Is Told After Supper in the public domain?
Yes — it is free to read and share.
Who wrote Told After Supper?
Jerome Klapka Jérôme.
Where can I read Told After Supper online for free?
It is in the public domain — read it free on Open Library. Open Library