The Ghost of Jerry Bundler by W W Jacobs

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Ghost of Jerry Bundler by W. W. Jacobs is Jacob's second most famous supernatural fiction short story after The Monkey's Paw. It's a Christmas Ghost story set in the bar of an old coaching inn in an English country town just a few days short of Christmas. A group of travellers find themselves having to stay over Christmas at the haunted inn and begin to entertain and ultimately terrify themselves.A spooky little story for Christmas ghosts with a twist at the end that deserves its place on any podcast that reads out classic horror audiobooks.Check out my Bandcamp sitehttps://theclassicghoststoriespodcast.bandcamp.com/Remember I have members only stories too! New Patreon Request Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jerry Bundler by
0:07.8	everybody comes back
0:11.5	Isn't that sir?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.1	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:19.7	Jerry Bundler by W.W. Jacobs
0:24.8	It wanted a few nights to Christmas, a festival for which the small market town of Torchester
0:31.6	was making extensive preparations. The narrow streets which had been thronged with people were now almost deserted.
0:40.8	The cheap Jack from London, with the remnant of breath left in him after his evening's exertions,
0:46.5	was making feeble attempts to blow out his naphther lamp, and the last shops open were rapidly
0:52.9	closing for the night. In the comfortable coffeeroom of the old boar's head half a dozen guests principally commercial travellers sat talking by the light of the fire
1:04.6	the talk adrifted from trade to politics from politics to religion, and so, by easy stages, to the supernatural.
1:15.7	Three ghost stories never known to fail before had fallen flat.
1:21.7	There was too much noise outside, too much light within.
1:26.1	The fourth story was told by an old hand with more success.
1:30.5	The streets were quiet, and he had turned the gas out.
1:34.5	In the flickering light of the fire, as it shone on the glasses and danced with shadows on the walls,
1:41.1	the story proved so enthralling that George, the waiter, whose presence had been
1:47.0	forgotten, created a very disagreeable sensation by suddenly starting up from a dark corner
1:53.0	and gliding silently from the room.
1:56.0	That's what I call a good story, said one of the men, sipping his hot whiskey.
2:00.0	Of course it's an old idea that spirits like to get into the company of human beings.
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