Short stories - by story

This list gives the names of all the short stories (including the Arabel and Mortimer stories), and gives a brief reference to all appearances of that story of which I am aware. Those collections that are detailed elsewhere in this bibliography are simply named in the list. Magazines are named, and the details of which issue are given. Other collections are specified completely as they occur.

"pi in the sky" (poem)

- The skin spinners
(That "pi" should be a pi symbol, but I can't do that in HTML)

"A batch of magic wands"

- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"A bed for the night"

- A necklace of raindrops

"A call at the Joneses'"

- Mortimer says nothing

"A game of black and white"

- A touch of chill (UK and US)

"A handful of dark-blue fur"

- Puffin Post (1973)
- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"A harp of fishbones"

- Miscellany 4 (OUP)
- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones
- The fantastic imagination II: an anthology of High Fantasy
1978, Avon, paperback
edited by Robert H Boyer & Kenneth J Zahorski

"A jar of cobblestones"

- Puffin Post
- A harp of fishbones

"A leaf in the shape of a key"

- All the year round
1980, Evans Brothers
- The last slice of rainbow

"A leg full of rubies"

- Argosy (volume XX, number 10, November 1959, p27)
- Not what you expected
- A small pinch of weather

"A long day without water"

- Young winter's tales 2
Macmillan
- Haunting tales
edited by B Ireson
- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones

"A long way to swim"

- A touch of chill (US only)

"A mermaid too many"

- Argosy (volume XVIII, number 11, November 1957, p29)

"A necklace of raindrops"

- A necklace of raindrops

"A portable elephant"

- Up the chimney down (UK only)

"A room full of leaves"

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"A set for every sheep"

- Argosy
- A bundle of nerves

"A short directory of Kent" (poem)

The skin spinners

"A small pinch of weather"

- Woman's journal
- A small pinch of weather
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"A taxi to solitude"

- The far forests

"A train full of war-lords"

- The windscreen weepers
- A touch of chill

"A tray of tea"

- Jackanory (BBC TV 1970)
- The faithless lollybird (UK only)

"A view of the heath"

- The green flash

"A walk in the wood"

- Ellery Queen (volume 46, number 2, August 1965)

"Air on an escalator" (poem)

The skin spinners

"All you've ever wanted"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time
- Author's choice
?? if Author's choice 2, then 1973, Hamilton

"Algebra" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Apollo and Daphne" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Arabel's birthday"

- Mortimer says nothing

"Arabel's raven"

- published separately under that name
- Tales of Arabel's raven

"Armitage, Armitage, fly away home"

- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"As gay as cheese"

- Argosy
- Alfred Hitchcock's witch's brew
- The far forests
- The windscreen weepers
- A bundle of nerves

"As good as a feast?" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Aunt Jezebel's house"

- The ghost's companion
edited by P Haining

"Aunt Susan"

- A goose on your grave

"Baba Yaga's daughter"

- The kingdom under the sea

"Bad dream" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Belle of the ball"

- Argosy
- The green flash
- The windscreen weepers
- A bundle of nerves

"Bridge" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Bridget's hat"

- Puffin Post
- Tale of a one-way street

"Broomsticks and sardines"

- Pick of today's short stories 7
- A small pinch of weather

"Cat" (poem)

- Cricket
- The skin spinners

"Catch the Christmas train"

- More than you bargained for

"Cat's cradle"

- The faithless lollybird (US only)
- Up the chimney down (UK only)

"Change of wind" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Charter flight" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Cherrystones" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Christmas at Troy"

- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"Clean sheets"

- Puffin Post
- Tale of a one-way street

"Clem's dream"

- The last slice of rainbow

"Cooks and prophecies"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"Cricket"

- Argosy (volume XVII, number 9, Sep 1956, p25)
- The far forests
- The windscreen weepers
- A bundle of nerves

"Crusader's Toby"

- Young winter's tales 6
Macmillan
- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"Dangerous journey" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Dead language master"

- Fontana horror book
- The green flash
- The windscreen weepers
- A bundle of nerves

"Do it yourself" (poem)

- Cricket
- The skin spinners

"Do you dig Grieg?"

- Argosy
- A bundle of nerves

"Doll's house to let, mod. con."

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"Don't pay the postman"

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"Down below" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Dragon Monday"

- All you've ever wanted

"Elephant's ear"

- Strangeness
1977, Scribner
edited by Thomas M Disch & Charles Naylor
- A touch of chill (US edition only)

"Eskimo legend" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Fable" (poem)

- Cricket
- The skin spinners

"Finders keepers"

- Black eyes: and other spine chillers
1981, Leeds: Pepper Press
compiled by Lance Salway
illustrated by Jill Bennett
21cm, 92pp
The Magnet book of spine chillers
1983, London: Magnet, paperback
20cm, 92pp
retitling of "Black eyes: and other spine chillers"
- A whisper in the night (US and UK)

"Five green moons"

- Argosy
- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"Five minute marriage"

- excerpt from the novel Five minute marriage
- Good Housekeeping (number 186, page 197, March 1978)

"Fog hounds"

- Fog hounds, wind cat, sea mice

"Follow my fancy"

- The green flash

"Footprints" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Fruit thought" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Furry night"

- Argosy
- Ghostbook 19 (was it 19??)
- Nightfrights
edited by P Haining
- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"Gay as cheese"

- alternative title of "As gay as cheese"
- The haunted and the haunters
1975
edited by K Lines

"Grandfather" (poem)

- The horn book
- The skin spinners

"Guide to London" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Hand over" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Hanging matter"

- A whisper in the night (UK only)

"Harriet's birthday present"

- All you've ever wanted

"Harriet's hairloom"

- A small pinch of weather
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

""He""

- A touch of chill (US and UK)
(NB: The actual title of the story is "open double quotes, H, E, close double quotes")

"He'd just come from the churchyard" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Hit and run"

- Suspense (volume 3, number 5, May 1960, p42)
illustrated by James Moss
NOTE this appears to be a short form of "Hate begins at home"

"Homer's whistle"

- They wait
Pepper Press, 1983
- A whisper in the night (US only)
- A goose on your grave

"Hope"

- Strange fish, and other stories
1974
edited by L Garfield
- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones

"House on Cape Cod" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Humblepuppy"

- Puffin Post
- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones

"I have" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"If" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"If you marry again"

- Vogue (number 136, page 32, November 1960)

"In the old house" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"John Sculpin and the witches"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"John's song" (poem)

from Not what you expected
- The skin spinners

"Jugged hare"

- Ellery Queen's mystery magazine
- A touch of chill (UK only)

"Kiss from a stranger"

- Good Housekeeping (number 187, page 263, November 1978)
condensation of "The smile of the stranger"

"Kiss your hand to the magpie"

- The faithless lollybird (US and UK)

"Listening"

- A touch of chill (US and UK)

"Lob's girl"

- A whisper in the night (US only)
- A goose on your grave

"Lodgers"

- A touch of chill (US and UK)

"Lodging for the night"

- Argosy
- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"Look out for the platform" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Looking after Rosa"

- Mice and Mendelson

"Lost - one pair of legs"

- The last slice of rainbow

"Man and owl" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Managing without the moon"

- Mice and Mendelson

"Marmalade wine"

- Suspense (volume 1, number 2, September 1958, p33)
- Pan book of horror
- Merchants of menace (Mystery writers of America)
- The green flash
- The windscreen weepers
- A bundle of nerves

"Memory"

- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"Merminster"

- A whisper in the night (UK and US)

"Mice" (poem)

- Wychwood school magazine
- The skin spinners

"Minette"

- The green flash

"Miss Hooting's legacy"

- Methuen Book of Sinister Stories
1982, Methuen (Associated Book Publishers)
- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"Miss Spitfire"

- A whisper in the night (UK and US)

"Moment of hazard"

- Suspense (volume 2, number 10, November 1959, p59)
as by Nicholas Dee
NOTE this appears to be the same as (or a version of) "The green flash"

"Moonshine in the mustard pot"

- The Noel Streatfield Birthday Book
- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"More than you bargained for"

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"Mortimer and the sword Excalibur"

- published separately under that name
- Arabel and Mortimer

"Mortimer says nothing"

- Mortimer says nothing

"Mortimer's Cross"

- Mortimer's Cross

"Mortimer's portrait on glass"

- published separately under that name
- Mortimer's Cross

"Mortimer's tie"

- published separately under that name
- Arabel and Mortimer

"Motorway reflection" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Mousework"

- A touch of chill (US only)

"Mr Jones's rest cure"

- Mortimer says nothing

"Mr Mendelson goes backwards"

- Mice and Mendelson

"Mr Mendelson learns to fly"

- Mice and Mendelson

"Mrs Chatterbox"

- A whisper in the night (UK and US)

"Mrs Considine"

- The green flash
- The windscreen weepers
- A touch of chill (UK only)

"Mrs Nutti's fireplace"

- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones

"Musicians out of work"

- All you've ever wanted

"My brother's dream" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"My father remembers" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Nate's song" (poem)

from Nightbirds on Nantucket
- The skin spinners

"New York sewers" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Night landscape" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Nutshells, seashells"

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"Old Fillikin"

- Twilight Zone, April 1982
- Ghostly Encounters
1981, Kestrel
- A whisper in the night (UK and US)

"Our feathered friends"

- Woman's Journal
- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"Outing" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Palace cook's tale" (poem)

- Puffin Annual
- The skin spinners

"Pastry in the sky"

- Mice and Mendelson

"Picnic area"

- Twilight Zone, July 1982
- A whisper in the night (UK only)

"Pigeon cake for Miss Samphire"

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"Plane thinking" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Postman's knock"

- Woman's Journal
- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"Potter's Gray"

- Up the chimney down (US only)
- A goose on your grave (NB as "Potter's Grey")

"Power-cut"

- Giles Gordon's book of contemporary nightmares (1977 or 1978)
- A touch of chill (UK and US)

"Prelude - to the Armitage stories "

- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"Proverbs" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Return to nowhere" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Rhyme for night" (poem)

from Winterthing
- The skin spinners

"Rocket full of pie"

- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"Safe and soundproof"

- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"Sailor's legends"

- A touch of chill (US only)

"Sea mice"

- Fog hounds, wind cat, sea mice

"Searching for summer"

- Argosy
- Ladies of fantasy: two centuries of sinister stories by the gentle sex
1975, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard
edited by Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis
- The green flash
- The windscreen weepers
- A bundle of nerves

"She was afraid of upstairs"

- Methuen book of Strange Tales
1981, Methuen
- A whisper in the night (UK only)
- A touch of chill (US only)

"Smell"

- The green flash
- The windscreen weepers
- A bundle of nerves

"Smoke from Cromwell's time"

- A small pinch of weather
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"Snail" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Snow horse"

- A whisper in the night (US only)
- A goose on your grave

"Socks and shocks" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"Socks for the sirens" (poem)

- Argosy
- The skin spinners

"Some music for the wicked Countess"

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"Sonata for harp and bicycle"

- Argosy
- The green flash
- A bundle of nerves

"Sultan's splash"

- Argosy
- Short story international [16]
- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"Sultan: a friend"

- A whisper in the night (UK only)

"Summer by the sea"

- The green flash

"Sweet singeing in the choir"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"Tale of a one-way street"

- Tale of a one-way street

"Tea at Ravensburgh"

- More than you bargained for

"That long wet summer"

The A

"The alarm cock"

- Tale of a one-way street

"The apple of trouble"

- Winter's tales for children 4
Macmillan
- The usurping ghost, and other encounters and experiences
edited by S Dickinson
- A small pinch of weather
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"The bag of time"

- Mice and Mendelson

"The baker's cat"

- A necklace of raindrops

"The ballad of Newington Green" (poem)

- Puffin Post
- The skin spinners

"The birthday party"

- A whisper in the night (UK only)
- A touch of chill (US only)

"The black cliffs"

- A whisper in the night (UK only)

"The blades"

- Out of time
Bodley Head, 1984
- A goose on your grave

"The bog people" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"The boy who read aloud"

- Not what you expected
- A small pinch of weather

"The boy with a wolf's foot"

- Magpie book of stories
Purnell/Bancroft
- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones

"The boy with a wolf's foot" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"The brat who knew too much"

- All you ever wanted

"The bread bin"

- published separately under that name
- Tales of Arabel's raven

"The cat sat on the mat"

- A necklace of raindrops

"The cat who lived in a drainpipe"

- Midnight prowlers: stories of cats and their enslaved owners
1981, NY: William Morrow & Co Inc
edited by Phyllis R Fenners
illustrated by George Gershinowitz
191pp
- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"The cat-flap and the apple-pie"

- The cat-flap and the apple-pie
1979, WH Allen
compiled by Lance Salway
illustrated by Jill Bennett
23cm, 103pp
- A touch of chill (US only)
- Up the chimney down (UK only)

"The cold flame"

- The fifth ghost book
- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"The companion"

- Winter's crimes
- A touch of chill (UK only)

"The cost of night"

- Not what you expected
- A small pinch of weather

"The dark streets of Kimball's Green"

- The Friday miracle and other stories
1969, Puffin
- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones

"The dog on the roof"

- Wenn weihnachten kommt
1982, Friedrich Oetinger
translated as: "Ein hund bellt sich vom Dach"
- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"The Doge's ring"

- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"The dreamers"

- Suspense (volume 3, number 4, April 1960)
- The green flash

"The driver" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"The elves in the shelves"

- A necklace of raindrops

"The escaped black mamba"

- published separately under that name
- Tales of Arabel's raven

"The faithless lollybird"

- Puffin Annual 1
1974
- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"The far forests"

- The far forests

"The fiery Christmas trees"

- Mice and Mendelson

"The fire dogs"

- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"The fisherman writes a letter to the mermaid" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"The frozen cuckoo"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"The gardener and the fork"

- All you've ever wanted

"The ghostly governess"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"The gift pig"

- Allsorts 3
Macmillan
- A harp of fishbones
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"The gift-giving"

- untitled anthology for the State of Connecticut
Delacorte
edited by D Gallo
- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"The golden-fleeced ram and the hundred elephants "

- The kingdom under the sea

"The goodbye song"

- Tale of a one-way street

"The goose girl "

- The kingdom under the sea

"The green flash"

- The green flash

"The happiest sheep in London"

- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"The helper"

- ?? a Herbert Harris collection
- A touch of chill (UK only)

"The hunchback of Brook Green"

- A whisper in the night (UK and US)

"The imprisoned queen"

- The kingdom under the sea

"The king who declared war on the animals"

- The kingdom under the sea

"The king who stood all night"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"The kingdom under the sea"

- The kingdom under the sea

"The lame king"

- A goose on your grave

"The land of trees and heroes"

- Golden pleasure books
- A small pinch of weather
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"The last chimney cuckoo"

- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"The last slice of rainbow"

- Storyteller part two
1982, Marshall Cavendish part works
- The last slice of rainbow

"The last specimen"

- A whisper in the night (US only)
- A goose on your grave

"The lilac in the lake"

- Miscellany 3
OUP
- A small pinch of weather
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"The lions"

- Tale of a one-way street

"The lobster's birthday"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"The looking-glass tree"

- Cricket (1976)
- Deadly Nightshade
edited by P Haining
- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"The lost five minutes"

- Allsorts 4
Macmillan
- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones

"The magic iron"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"The man who had seen the rope trick"

- The far forests
- A bundle of nerves

"The man who pinched God's letter"

- The Scribner anthology for young people
1976
- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"The man who stopped the birds" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"The midnight rose"

- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"The missing heir"

- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"The mysterious barricades"

- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"The mystery of Mr Jones's disappearing taxi"

- published separately under that name
- Mortimer's Cross

"The night the stars were gone"

- The faithless lollybird (UK and US)

"The old poet"

- A goose on your grave

"The parrot pirate princess"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"The patchwork quilt"

- A necklace of raindrops

"The pear tree"

- The kingdom under the sea

"The people in the castle"

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"The prince of darkness"

- A harp of fishbones

"The punishment" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"The queen of the moon"

- Tale of a one-way street

"The queen with screaming hair"

- Jubilee Jackanory
1977, BBC Publications
- The last slice of rainbow

"The rain child"

- The faithless lollybird (US only)
- Up the chimney down (UK only)

"The reed girl"

- The kingdom under the sea

"The rented swan"

- The far forests
- A touch of chill (UK only)

"The river boy"

- Argosy
- A harp of fishbones
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"The rocking donkey"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"The rose of Puddle Fratrum"

- The world of ballet
Collins
- Not what you expected
- A harp of fishbones

"The sale of midsummer"

- Ghostly, grim and gruesome
edited by H Hoke

"The serial garden"

- Winter's tales for children 2
Macmillan
- A small pinch of weather
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"The Sewanee glide"

- A touch of chill (UK and US)

"The shadow on the map" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"The skin spinners" (poem)

- The skin spinners

"The smile" (poem)

- The horn book
- The skin spinners

"The spider in the bath"

- The last slice of rainbow

"The spiral stair"

- published separately under that name
- Arabel and Mortimer

"The stolen quince tree"

- Golden pleasure books
- A small pinch of weather
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"The story about Caruso"

- The far forests
- A touch of chill (UK only)

"The sun's cousin"

- The kingdom under the sea

"The sun-god's castle"

- The kingdom under the sea

"The swan child"

- A whisper in the night (UK and US)

"The third wish"

- Not what you expected
- More than you bargained for
- All but a few

"The three travellers"

- A necklace of raindrops

"The tractor,the duck and the drum"

- Tale of a one-way street

"The tree that loved a girl"

- The last slice of rainbow

"The true history of Good King Wenceslas"

- All you ever wanted

"The Venetian Princess"

- The kingdom under the sea

"The voice in the shell"

- The last slice of rainbow

"The windowbox waltz"

- A whisper in the night (US only)

"The windshield weepers"

- The green flash
- The windshield weepers

"The wolves and the mermaids"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Smoke from Cromwell's time

"There's some sky in this pie"

- A necklace of raindrops

"Think of a word"

- The last slice of rainbow

"Time to laugh"

- New Terrors 1
1979 or 1980 - anthology series
- ?? a Herbert Harris collection
- A touch of chill (UK and US)

"Two races"

- Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September 1982
- A whisper in the night (US only)

"Two tales of Burnt Porridge"

- A harp of fishbones

"Up the chimney down"

- Up the chimney down (UK and US)

"What sort of person is this Amanda Jones anyway?"

- The drugged cornet and other mystery stories
edited by S Dickinson

"Who goes down this dark road?"

- A touch of chill (UK and US)

"Wind cat"

- Fog hounds, wind cat, sea mice

"Wing Quack Flap"

- Cold Feet
Hodder & Stoughton, 1985
- A goose on your grave

"Worst-natur'd Muse"

- Argosy (volume XXIV, number 7, July 1963, p95)

"Yes, but today is Tuesday"

- All you've ever wanted
- All but a few
- Armitage, Armitage, fly away home

"Your mind is a mirror"

- A goose on your grave

The following collection is indicated by the UL catalogue as containing a Joan Aiken story - it is not clear which is its title...

- "Uniform title": They wait and other spine chillers
- "Title": Shivers in the dark
1983, London: Bell and Hyman
1984, Magnet, 20cm, 88pp, paperback
compiled by Lance Salway
illustrated by Jill Bennett