M Is for Magic
{{Short description|2007 collection of child-friendly short fiction by Neil Gaiman}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = M Is for Magic
| author = Neil Gaiman
| image = File:MForMagic.jpg
| caption = First edition
| country = United States
| language = English
| publisher = HarperCollins
| release_date = June 26, 2007
| media_type = Print (hardback)
| pages = 272
}}
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,{{cite web |url=http://blogcritics.org/book-review-m-is-for-magic/|title=Book Review: M Is For Magic by Neil Gaiman |date=22 June 2007 |publisher=BC Books |accessdate=2015-06-23}} with the exception of "The Witch's Headstone", which is an excerpt from the later-published novel, The Graveyard Book. All the stories also appeared in Coraline and Other Stories (2007) published by Bloomsbury in the UK.
Contents
- "The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds" (first published in Knave, appears in Angels & Visitations)
- "Troll Bridge" (first published in Snow White, Blood Red, appears in Angels & Visitations and Smoke and Mirrors)
- "Don't Ask Jack" (first published in FAN, appears in Smoke and Mirrors)
- "How to Sell the Ponti Bridge" (first published in Imagine #24)
- "October in the Chair" (first published in Conjunctions, appears in Fragile Things)
- "Chivalry" (first published in Grails, Quests, Visitations and other Occurrences, appears in Angels & Visitations and Smoke and Mirrors)
- "The Price" (first published as a chapbook by Dreamhaven Press, appears in Smoke and Mirrors)
- "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" (first published in Fragile Things)
- "Sunbird" (first published in Noisy Outlaws, appears in Fragile Things)
- "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, appears in Fragile Things)
References
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