Short Stories & Articles

<< The Texts page of this site is the top page for short stories and articles from Argosy, Magpie, Punch and the Guardian. More will be added as and when possible.

Jack Trevor Story wrote a huge and uncounted number of short stories (many of them of the 1,000-words-or-less variety) and articles for an uncatalogued range of papers and magazines.

In the absence of any more definitive listing, I am listing here the names of the publications known to have carried his stories and/or articles (information gleaned from various sources). Where I have details of any Story pieces in the publication, I will list these.

For the time being I am leaving off the New Worlds appearances, detailed on the New Worlds page on this site. There is also at least one other serialisation of a novel, in a Cambridge paper, which I am not listing; details of any such appearances welcome, however, for future addition.

Clearly this list can only grow, so please send in any corrections and/or additions - also let me know if you have any magazines or papers with Story pieces for sale, or are willing to send me photocopies or scanned text. Many thanks in advance!

March 2006: Nick and Ann-Marie Osmond, who sell on eBay under the name Hoonaloon, found me a copy of Argosy for March 1951 with the JTS short The Night the Brick Came Through the Window. Many thanks for that.

I also got hold of The Television Detectives' Omnibus with the undistinguished Sexton Blake short story, The Man Who Was Hammered. I haven't seen this story in the Sexton Blake Library or anywhere else. If anyone knows of its origins, please let me know.

Guy.Lawley@dsl.pipex.com

Title of Book / Magazine / Paper	Known Content
Argosy (UK)	The Root (Sept. 1946) Chestnut (Sept. 1947) Duet (Oct. 1947) A Room on the First Floor (April 1948) Pursuit (May 1948) The Night the Brick Came Through the Window (March 1951) Sea and Sad Voices (Dec. 1969) Sentimental Murder (May 1970)
Club International	Thursday Afternoon Early Closing (Vol.4, No. 10, Oct. 1975)
The Evening Standard
The Guardian	Regular Saturday column, early 1970s. Also many occasional pieces after the end of the regular column, through until the 80s Native Air (short story) 3rd April 1972
John Bull
John O'London's
The Listener
Magpie	Our Maudie and the Stately Home (Jan 1953)
The Okay Adventure Annual	Wulfric of the Fens (undated hardback children's book, circa 1955; published by Boardman) Cops and Robbers (another undated hardback, circa 1955; Boardman)
Punch	Two Old Men In Deck-Chairs (Sept 16th 1988) Pick Of Punch (hardback annual collections) 1981, 1982 and 1987 each contain one short piece by Story (possibly other years do too)
Radio Times
The Sexton Blake Library	The Penny Murder, in Sexton Blake Library 435, September 1959. Read it here >> In The Red, in Sexton Blake Library 499, May 1962.
The Sunday Times
The Television Detectives' Omnibus	The Man Who Was Hammered. A Sexton Blake short story. Unknown whether this first appeared anywhere else.
TV Times
Romance Digest	David Redd writes (March 2005): Phil Harbottle of Wallsend once told me he thought Story was the anonymous editor of "Romance Digest" - a 1954 paperback from Dragon Books which included single pieces from the likes of Ruby M Ayres and Ursula Bloom, and two JTS stories - Love and Pickering, and A Time for Dreaming.