About

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) is chiefly remembered today for his great comic masterpiece Three Men In A Boat (1889), and it will likely come as a surprise to many to learn of his output of weird, macabre, and supernatural stories. These stories demonstrate Jerome’s wide-ranging talent, and whilst some of his “strange” tales are humorous (in particular the Told After Supper stories), others are mystical, and a few are genuinely horrific. After struggling to establish a writing career, Jerome’s major break came when Robert Barr appointed him as editor of The Idler, the magazine whose circulation Jerome described as “second only to one other English magazine” [The Strand].