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The Story of The Inexperienced Ghost

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
25 minutes
ISBN
9781802565003
Published
10 April 2025
Imprint
Fantastica
  • ghost
  • haunting
  • supernatural
  • humor
  • mortality
  • identity
  • afterlife
  • existential
  • whimsical
  • human condition

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Description

At the club, Clayton tells of a shy ghost who cannot haunt properly, then shows the fatal passes himself. Comedy turns cold when the joke about the afterlife stops being a joke. Spoken as Wells ghost humour with a sting in the last beat.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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