Daemon voices: on stories and storytelling

Introduction / by Simon Mason

Magic carpets : the writer's responsibilities

The writing of stories : making it up and writing it down

Heinrich von Kleist : "On the marionette theatre" : grace lost and regained

Paradise lost : an introduction

The origin of the universe : the storytelling of science and religion : a response to a lecture by Stephen Hawking

The path through the wood : how stories work

Dreaming of spires : Oxfords, real and imaginary

Intention : what do you mean?

Children's literature without borders : stories shouldn't need passports

Let's write it in red : the practice of writing

Epics : big stories about big things

Folk tales of Britain : streams of stories down through the years

As clear as water : making a new version of the Brothers Grimm

A bar at the Folies-Bergère : modernism and storytelling

Poco a poco : the fundamental particles of narrative

The classical tone : narrative tact and other classical virtues

Reading in the borderland : reading, books and pictures

Oliver Twist : an introduction

Let's pretend : novels, films and the theatre

The Firework-Maker's Daughter on stage : the story of a story

Imaginary friends : are stories anti-scientific?

Maus : behind the masks

Balloon debate : why fiction is valuable

The anatomy of melancholy : an introduction to an indispensable book

Soft Beulah's night : William Blake and vision

Writing fantasy realistically : fantasy, realism and faith

The story of The good man Jesus and the scoundrel Christ : a response to puzzled readers

The cat, the chisel and the grave : do we need a theory of human nature to tell us how to write stories?

"I must create a system..." : a moth's-eye view of William Blake

Talents and virtues : another visit to Miss Goddard's grave

God and dust : notes for a study day with the Bishop of Oxford

The Republic of Heaven : God is dead, long live the Republic!