M is for Magic | ||
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Author | Neil Gaiman | |
Country | US | |
Genre(s) | Childrens | |
Publisher | Harper Collins | |
Publication date | June 26th, 2007 |
M Is for Magic is a collection of child-friendly short fiction by Neil Gaiman. The stories and poems were selected from previously published works, with the exception of "The Witch's Headstone", which is an excerpt from the later-published novel, The Graveyard Book, and are:
- "The Case Of The Four And Twenty Blackbirds" (first published in Knave)
- "Troll Bridge" (first published in Smoke and Mirrors)
- "Don't Ask Jack" (first published in Smoke and Mirrors)
- "How To Sell The Ponti Bridge" (first published in Imagine #24)
- "October In The Chair" (first published in Conjunctions)
- "Chivalry" (first published in Smoke and Mirrors)
- "The Price" (first published in Smoke and Mirrors)
- "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (first published in Fragile Things)
- "Sunbird" (first published in Noisy Outlaws)
- "The Witch's Headstone" (first published in Dark Alchemy: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy)
- "Instructions" (first published in Wolf at the Door)
All the stories also appeared in Coraline and Other Stories (2007) published by Bloomsbury in the UK.