Interesting and Unusual Things, and Not Only on Mondays: Joan Aiken's Short Fiction
Reviewed by Jed Hartman
29 October 2001
This table shows which stories are in each of the four collections discussed in the review:
Not What you Expected
A Harp of Fishbones (strong overlap with Not What You Expected)
Armitage, Armitage, Fly Away Home
A Small Pinch of Weather (strong overlap with Armitage)
An x indicates that the given story is in the given collection.
[*] indicates an Armitage-family story.
| Expected | Fishbones | Armitage | Weather | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Harp of Fishbones | x | x | ||
| The Boy With a Wolf's Foot | x | x | ||
| The Lost Five Minutes | x | x | ||
| Dolls' House to Let, Mod. Con. [*] | x | |||
| The Rose of Puddle Fratrum | x | x | ||
| A Long Day Without Water | x | x | ||
| The Dark Streets of Kimball's Green | x | x | ||
| The Boy Who Read Aloud | x | x | ||
| The Cost of Night | x | x | ||
| A Leg Full of Rubies | x | x | ||
| Hope | x | x | ||
| More Than You Bargained For | x | |||
| The People in the Castle | x | |||
| Don't Pay the Postman | x | |||
| The Third Wish | x | |||
| Pigeon Cake for Miss Samphire | x | |||
| Nutshells, Seashells | x | |||
| Some Music for the Wicked Countess | x | |||
| A Room Full of Leaves | x | |||
| Mrs. Nutti's Fireplace [*] | x | x | ||
| Humblepuppy | x | x | ||
| A Jar of Cobblestones | x | |||
| The Prince of Darkness | x | |||
| Two Tales of Burnt Porridge | x | |||
| The River Boy | x | |||
| The Gift Pig | x | |||
| Prelude [*] | x | |||
| Yes, but Today Is Tuesday [*] | x | |||
| The Frozen Cuckoo [*] | x | |||
| Sweet Singeing in the Choir [*] | x | |||
| Harriet's Hairloom [*] | x | x | ||
| The Ghostly Governess [*] | x | |||
| The Land of Trees and Heroes [*] | x | x | ||
| The Stolen Quince Tree [*] | x | x | ||
| A Batch of Magic Wands [*] | x | |||
| The Apple of Trouble [*] | x | x | ||
| The Serial Garden [*] | x | x | ||
| A Small Pinch of Weather | x | |||
| Broomsticks and Sardines [*] | x | |||
| Smoke from Cromwell's Time | x | |||
| The Lilac in the Lake | x |