If you have anything interesting to add, please send it to idelthoughts at jeromekjerome dot com, and excuse the cryptic email address, but if we write it normally well get inundated with spam. Each ghost story can be told in a different way and still be effective. We declined to drink the river in the original we found ourselves short of water at hambledon lock. Humour, the most idiosyncratic of emotions, often evades the writer who tries to be funny. Below, we have provided an everexpanding selection of old and new short stories that are free to download. More than 100 years after its first appearance, jerome k.
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