M Is for Magic

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,^[1] 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.

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