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Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Creatures by Peter Dickinson (Small Beer Press, September 2012, 978-1-618730-58-9, $17.95, 193pp, hc, oc, cover by Jackie Morris)
Middle-grade original collection of six stories (one a reprint somewhat revised), part of the Elemental series previously co-authored by Robin McKinley. A trade paperback edition (-38-1, $14.95) is also available.

i · Preface · Peter Dickinson · pr

1 · Troll Blood · Peter Dickinson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2012

37 · Ridiki · Peter Dickinson · nv

73 · Wizand · Peter Dickinson · nv

103 · Talaria · Peter Dickinson · nv

131 · Scops · Peter Dickinson · nv

175 · The Fifth Element · Peter Dickinson · ss Verdict of 13 ed. Julian Symons, Faber and Faber, 1978, as “Who Killed the Cat?”; slightly revised.

Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Peter Dickinson & Robin McKinley--- see under Robin McKinley.

Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson (Delacorte, October 1988, 0-440-50067-2, $19.95, 167pp, hc, co)
Young adult fantasy collection of stories connected through Merlin’s dreams. Illustrated in color and b&w by Alan Lee. A gorgeous book. Simultaneous with a British edition from Gollancz.

7 · Merlin… · Peter Dickinson · ss

12 · Knight Errant · Peter Dickinson · ss

36 · Stone · Peter Dickinson · ss

48 · Sword · Peter Dickinson · ss

66 · Hermit · Peter Dickinson · pm

72 · Unicorn · Peter Dickinson · ss

81 · Damsel · Peter Dickinson · nv

116 · King · Peter Dickinson · ss

130 · Sciopod · Peter Dickinson · ss

151 · Enchantress · Peter Dickinson · ss

166 · …Dreams · Peter Dickinson · pm

Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Peter Dickinson & Robin McKinley--- see under Robin McKinley.

The Weir: Poems by Peter Dickinson (Peter Dickinson Books, December 16, 2007, 978-0-9557805-1-6, £9.10, 80pp, tp, oc)
Collection of poems, mainly original.

3 · The Weir · Peter Dickinson · pm

4 · Note · Peter Dickinson · pr

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7 · Walking to School · Peter Dickinson · pm The Weekend Telegraph

10 · Infinite Loop · Peter Dickinson · pm Encounter

11 · Commuters · Peter Dickinson · pm The Atlantic Monthly

12 · Waking at Night · Peter Dickinson · pm

13 · K · Peter Dickinson · pm

14 · Repairing a Roof · Peter Dickinson · pm

15 · Binocular Vision · Peter Dickinson · pm

16 · These Three · Peter Dickinson · pm

17 · A Chosen End · Peter Dickinson · pm

25 · Hedgerow Trees · Peter Dickinson · pm

26 · Flint · Peter Dickinson · pm

28 · … x 2 · Peter Dickinson · pm

29 · Meme · Peter Dickinson · pm

31 · The Invaders · Peter Dickinson · pm

32 · In Blue Hill · Peter Dickinson · pm

33 · An Education · Peter Dickinson · pm

34 · You Asked Why I Loved You · Peter Dickinson · pm

35 · Two on a Bed · Peter Dickinson · pm

36 · Five Finger Exercise · Peter Dickinson · pm

37 · The Other End of the Telescope · Peter Dickinson · pm

38 · Third · Peter Dickinson · pm

39 · Group · Peter Dickinson · pm

41 · The Cost of Living · Peter Dickinson · pm

42 · The Bridge · Peter Dickinson · pm

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43 · Where Do You Get Your Ideas? · Peter Dickinson · pm

44 · Song · Peter Dickinson · pm

44 · Instant · Peter Dickinson · pm

45 · Christmas Party · Peter Dickinson · pm

46 · Gravy · Peter Dickinson · pm

46 · Motto for Artists · Peter Dickinson · pm

47 · Reading in the Bathroom · Peter Dickinson · pm

47 · For an Old Man’s Sundial · Peter Dickinson · pm

48 · Demolishing a Cupboard · Peter Dickinson · pm

49 · Dinner Party Blues · Peter Dickinson · pm

50 · Aubade · Peter Dickinson · pm

50 · Chateau Ducru Beaucaillou 1918 · Peter Dickinson · pm

51 · Some Steam-Age Publishers · Peter Dickinson · pm

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52 · The Scapedog · Peter Dickinson · pm Puffin Annual Number 1 ed. Treld Bicknell, Frank Waters & Kaye Webb, Puffin, 1974

53 · The Barrow-mound · Peter Dickinson · pm

55 · Merlin’s Son · Peter Dickinson · pm

56 · Poor Unlucky Lucy · Peter Dickinson · pm

58 · Naming the Animals · Peter Dickinson · pm

61 · Ballad · Peter Dickinson · pm

63 · Full Circle · Peter Dickinson · pm

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64 · Sonnet · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1952

65 · Thomas Hardy on Egdon Heath · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1956

66 · Cutting Edge · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1958

67 · Sestina in Spring · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1957

69 · Love in the Laboratory · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1958

70 · Poultry Country, before Daybreak · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1963

71 · Epitaph for Mr Jiggs · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1963

72 · The Moon Is Female · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1966

73 · It’s an Ill Wind-bag · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1966

74 · “Corresponding De-escalation” · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1966

75 · From Slum to Chic · Peter Dickinson · pm Punch 1967

80 · Palinode · Peter Dickinson · pm

Case of the Vanishing Spinster ed. Susan Dickinson (Collins, 1972, 0-00-195157-2, 256pp, hc, an)
Also revised as The Drugged Cornet and Other Mystery Stories (Dutton 1973).

7 · Foreword · Susan Dickinson · fw

9 · The Case of the Vanishing Spinster · Allan Campbell McLean · ss

20 · The Message on the Sun-Dial · J. J. Bell · ss The Premier Magazine #6, March 1927

35 · The Inspiration of Mr. Budd · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Detective Story Magazine November 21 1925, as “Mr. Budd’s Inspiration”

49 · The Invisible Man [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 28 1911

67 · Who Killed Charlie Winpole? [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923, as “The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms”

100 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

128 · The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express · Freeman Wills Crofts · nv The Premier Magazine #106, January 28 1921

154 · The Tea-Leaf · Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace · nv The Strand Magazine October 1925

172 · Death in the Kitchen · Milward Kennedy · ss The Manchester Guardian 1930

177 · The Impossible Theft [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss 1964

183 · The White Line · John Ferguson · nv 1928

200 · The Convict and the Clerics · Joseph S. Fletcher · nv The Red Magazine April 1 1915

220 · Portrait of Henry · Elisabeth Beresford · ss 1970

231 · The Cupid Mirror · Ngaio Marsh · ss

238 · The Drugged Cornet · John Verney · ss 1959

247 · What Sort of Person Is This Amanda Jones Anyway? · Joan Aiken · ss

Drugged Cornet and Other Mystery Stories ed. Susan Dickinson (Dutton, 1973, 0-525-28928-3, $5.95, 230pp, hc, an)
Abridged reprint of The Case of the Vanishing Spinster (Collins 1972). Omits one story.

5 · Foreword · Susan Dickinson · fw Case of the Vanishing Spinster ed. Susan Dickinson, Collins, 1972

9 · The Case of the Vanishing Spinster · Allan Campbell McLean · ss Case of the Vanishing Spinster ed. Susan Dickinson, Collins, 1972

20 · The Message on the Sun-Dial · J. J. Bell · ss The Premier Magazine #6, March 1927

35 · The Inspiration of Mr. Budd · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Detective Story Magazine November 21 1925, as “Mr. Budd’s Inspiration”

49 · The Invisible Man [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 28 1911

67 · Who Killed Charlie Winpole? [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah, Grant Richards, 1923, as “The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms”

100 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

128 · The Tea-Leaf · Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace · nv The Strand Magazine October 1925

146 · Death in the Kitchen · Milward Kennedy · ss The Manchester Guardian 1930

151 · The Impossible Theft [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss 1964

157 · The White Line · John Ferguson · nv 1928

174 · The Convict and the Clerics · Joseph S. Fletcher · nv The Red Magazine April 1 1915

194 · Portrait of Henry · Elisabeth Beresford · ss 1970

205 · The Cupid Mirror · Ngaio Marsh · ss Case of the Vanishing Spinster ed. Susan Dickinson, Collins, 1972

212 · The Drugged Cornet · John Verney · ss 1959

221 · What Sort of Person Is This Amanda Jones Anyway? · Joan Aiken · ss Case of the Vanishing Spinster ed. Susan Dickinson, Collins, 1972

Ghostly Encounters ed. Susan Dickinson (Armada Lion, 1973, C611, 25p, 157pp, pb, an)
Abridged edition; first half of The Restless Ghost (Collins, 1970), with minor variations.

9 · The Restless Ghost · Leon Garfield · ss Restless Ghost ed. Susan Dickinson, Collins, 1970

30 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902

44 · Feet Foremost · L. P. Hartley · nv The Killing Bottle by L. P. Hartley, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932

85 · August Heat · W. F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910

92 · The Return of the Native · William Croft Dickinson · ss The Scotsman Christmas 1963

107 · Coincidence · A. J. Alan · ss The London Magazine April 1927
broadcast by the BBC Nov 7, 1925.

113 · The Rose Garden · M. R. James · ss More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Arnold, 1911

127 · Ghost Riders of the Sioux · Kenneth Ulyatt · nv Restless Ghost ed. Susan Dickinson, Collins, 1970

Ghostly Experiences ed. Susan Dickinson (Fontana Lions, 1973, C521, 25p, 158pp, pb, an)
Abridged edition; second half of The Restless Ghost (Collins, 1970), with minor variations.

9 · Feel Free · Alan Garner · ss Miscellany Four ed. Edward Blishen, Oxford University Press, 1967

20 · Minuke · Nigel Kneale · ss Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, Collins, 1949

34 · The Witch’s Bone · William Croft Dickinson · ss Dark Encounters by William Croft Dickinson, Harvill Press, 1963

48 · Lucky’s Grove · H. Russell Wakefield · nv The Clock Strikes Twelve by H. Russell Wakefield, Herbert Jenkins, 1940

75 · The Moon-Bog · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales June 1926

86 · The White Cat of Drumgunniol · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss All the Year Round April 2 1870, uncredited.

101 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 (+3)

137 · The Apple of Trouble [Armitage Family] · Joan Aiken · ss Winter’s Tales for Children 4 ed. M. R. Hodgkin, Macmillan, 1968

The Restless Ghost ed. Susan Dickinson (Collins, 1970, 0-00-195272-2, 30/-, 318pp, hc, an)
US hardcover retitled The Usurping Ghost, Dutton, 1971.

9 · Foreword · Susan Dickinson · fw

11 · The Restless Ghost · Leon Garfield · ss

30 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q

44 · Feet Foremost · L. P. Hartley · nv The Killing Bottle by L. P. Hartley, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932

81 · The Bus-Conductor · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1906

91 · August Heat · W. F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910

98 · Coincidence · A. J. Alan · ss The London Magazine April 1927
broadcast by the BBC Nov 7, 1925.

103 · School for the Unspeakable · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales September 1937

115 · Ghost Riders of the Sioux · Kenneth Ulyatt · nv

143 · Feel Free · Alan Garner · ss Miscellany Four ed. Edward Blishen, Oxford University Press, 1967

154 · Minuke · Nigel Kneale · ss Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, Collins, 1949

167 · The Witch’s Bone · William Croft Dickinson · ss Dark Encounters by William Croft Dickinson, Harvill Press, 1963

180 · Lucky’s Grove · H. Russell Wakefield · nv The Clock Strikes Twelve by H. Russell Wakefield, Herbert Jenkins, 1940

205 · The Moon-Bog · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales June 1926

216 · The White Cat of Drumgunniol · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss All the Year Round April 2 1870, uncredited.

229 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 (+3)

262 · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · nv The Idler March 1896

273 · The Haunted Dolls’ House · M. R. James · ss The Empire Review February 1923

288 · His Own Number · William Croft Dickinson · ss Dark Encounters by William Croft Dickinson, Harvill Press, 1963

299 · The Apple of Trouble [Armitage Family] · Joan Aiken · ss Winter’s Tales for Children 4 ed. M. R. Hodgkin, Macmillan, 1968

The Adventures of Doctor Who by Terrance Dicks (SFBC, October 1979, #5208, $5.98, xii+307pp, hc, om)

· Introducing Doctor Who · Harlan Ellison · in Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks, Pinnacle Books, 1979

· Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks · Terrance Dicks · n. Target Books, July 1976

· Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen · Terrance Dicks · n. Target Books, May 1976

· Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster · Terrance Dicks · n. Target Books, January 1976

The Peacock Feather Murders by Carter Dickson (William Morrow and Co., July 28, 1937, $2.00, 280pp, hc, n.) [Sir Henry Merrivale]

The Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson (Heinemann, October 1937, 7/6d, 282pp, hc, n.) [Sir Henry Merrivale]
Reprint (Morrow 1937 as The Peacock Feather Murders) novel.

The Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson (The British Library, February 10, 2025, 978-0-7123-5527-8, £9.99, 288pp, tp, n.) [Sir Henry Merrivale; British Library Crime Classics]
Reprint (Morrow 1937 as The Peacock Feather Murders) novel.

· Introduction · Martin Edwards · in

The White Priory Murders: A Mystery for Christmas by Carter Dickson (The British Library, October 10, 2002, 978-0-7123-5422-6, £9.99, 256pp, tp, n.) [Sir Henry Merrivale; British Library Crime Classics]
Reprint (Morrow 1934) mystery novel. Volume 108 in the series.

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