Stephen Jones (1) (1953–)

#1129 in our old book database. Not rated.

Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones round up some friends to write some ghastly, nasty little nursery rhymes and poems loosely inspired by A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six.

Nothing here really does much for me, nor did it work for me when I first read it 29 years ago. Yet, as with all my books, I'm still holding onto it.

FOR REFERENCE

Contents:

• Introduction: Now We Are Sick / Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones

~ Nasty Habits

• A Slice of Life / Diana Wynne Jones
• Auntie Ethel / Richard Hill
• You Always Eat the One You Love / Kim Newman
• Chocolate and Worms / David Garnett
• The Dangers of Colour TV / Simon Ian Childer [pen name of John Brosnan and Leroy Kettle]
• The Children's Hour / Alan Moore
• Radio Nasty / Stephen Gallagher
• Something Came Out of the Toilet / Harry Adam Knight [pen name of John Brosnan and Leroy Kettle]
• The Secret Book of the Dead / Terry Pratchett
• Mummy's Blocked the Lav Again / John Grant [pen name of Paul Barnett]

~ In Loving Memory . . .

• Rice Pudding / Brian Aldiss (after A. A. Milne, "Rice Pudding" from When We Were Very Young)
• Aboard the Good Ship 'Revenger,' Or, What the Crew Don't Know Won't Hurt Me / Galad Elflandsson (inspired by George MacDonald Fraser)
• The Dream of Omar K. Yam / David Sutton
• You're Deceased, Father William / Colin Greenland (after Lewis Carroll, "You Are Old, Father William" from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

~ Less Welcome Tenants

• A Landlady's Lament / Ramsey Campbell
• The Borgia Brats / Garry Kilworth
• Another Cursed House Story, Or, Always Enquire About the Prior Tenants / John M. Ford
• Waiting... / James Herbert
• The Thing at the Top of the Stairs / Sharon Baker
• Things that Go Bump in the Night / Ian Pemble

~ Night Fears

• In the Dark / Storm Constantine
• Lights Out / Alex Stewart
• A Mother's Tender Love / Jo Fletcher
• Catcawls / Samantha Lee
• The Haunted Henhouse, Or, The Irate Ghost of Thomas Hood / Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• When the Music Breaks / R. A. Lafferty

~ Adults Only

• Nasty Snow / Jody Scott
• Why Private War, or, "Why They Pinned This Name on My Progenitor" / Gene Wolfe
• The Answering Machine / S. P. Somtow

~ Epilogue

• Warning: Death May Be Injurious to Your Health / Robert Bloch

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
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