M Is for Magic

M Is for Magic

First edition
Author	Neil Gaiman
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	HarperCollins
Publication 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,^[1] 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)

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