The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones

The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones is a very short story by Stephen Leacock. It was re-published in Literary Lapses in 1910. It is read by John Le Mesurier on a 1976 LP What Is Going To Become Of Us All? It was made into a short movie by Gerald Potterton in 1983.

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It tells the story of a young curate who could not bear to say goodbye. He visits some friends and becomes trapped. After a couple of weeks he falls into "raging delirium of fever". After a month, the angels give him an invitation which he cannot refuse and he dies.