Told After Supper: Jerome K. Jerome’s Christmas Ghost Stories

First published in 1891, the book frames its stories around a Christmas Eve gathering whose guests have enjoyed plenty of food and even more drink. Their supernatural tales are eerie, absurd and deliberately comic, allowing Jerome to play with both the conventions of the ghost story and the unreliable confidence of its storytellers.

Raise a glass and settle in for a literary departure from the usual location-based program. The episode preserves the collection’s blend of holiday atmosphere, ghostly storytelling and dry humor while introducing a lesser-known work by the author of Three Men in a Boat.