It always is Christmas Eve, in a Ghost Story...”
The tradition of gathering together to tell ghost stories in the cold and dark of
winter surely stretches back far further to when we first imagined what lurks in the
dark corners on the firelight?
The Victorians, however, turned this parlour and party entertainment into an
institution and expectation.
First published in 1891, Jerome K Jerome, famed author of Three Men in a Boat,
perfectly parodies this spooky and popular amusement with these comic horror
stories.
A portmanteau of ghostly tales, told by an unreliable narrator and tied together
with nonsense, noise and whiskey-punch...
A Frosty Chiller or a Winter Warmer?
Storyteller Gav Cross brings this robust reading of a Victorian gem to life in his
typically bombastic way.