The Sad History of Gilly Bodkin (Storycuts)

Gilly Bodkin met a terrible accident in 1690 while searching for a sweetmeat. The poor boy's ghost is left to wander woods and highways searching for that elusive sweet that he lost his life trying to taste. This is his sad story.

Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.

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