M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman (2007) Subterranean Press (3/4)

a collection of short stories including:

- The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds in which Jack Horner is approached by Jill Dumpty to look into the murder of her brother Humpty.

- Troll Bridge in which we finally get to understand how the troll came to live under the bridge.

- Don’t Ask Jack in which we learn just why Jack in the Box is so scary to kids.

- How to Sell the Ponti Bridge where we learn how someone can sell the already owned to the owners.

- October in the Chair where the months take turns in the chair, deciding who can tell their stories.

- Chivalry in which a Mrs. Whittaker buys the Holy Grail from a thrift store and is bothered by Sir Galaad, on a quest for the goblet.

- The Price that a cat pays to keep its benefactors safe from something worse than their nightmares.

- How to Talk to Girls at Parties in which two young men barge into a party, one slick with the girls, the other very bashful.  Only these girls are from around here, meaning Earth.

- Sunbird in which extreme epicureans depart to Egypt to eat the one and only sunbird, which is at once exhilarating and deadly and can be done only once every hundred years.

- The Witch’s Gravestone the precursor to the Graveyard Book – in which Bod, a live boy, is being watched over and educated by the denizens of a graveyard.  He meet the spirit of a witch who was buried in unconsecrated ground (for being a witch) and learns she does not have a gravestone.  He resolves to get her one.