Dylan Thomas - Collected Stories

Dylan Thomas - Collected Stories, edited by Walford Davies, introduced by Leslie Norris (London: Phoenix, 2000)

Dylan wrote short stories from a young age. Many were published in periodicals and others broadcast on the radio. Some of his early, more surreal stories (which show the influence of Caradoc Evans' infamous collection of short stories My People) were published in The Map of Love in 1939.

His best known volume, the semi-autobiographical Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, was issued in 1940. The Collected Stories gather these together with fragments of Dylan's unfinished novel, Adventures in the Skin Trade, and other pieces, including A Child's Christmas in Wales and Return Journey.

After the Fair
The Tree
The True Story
The Enemies
The Dress
The Visitors
The Vest
The Burning Baby
The Orchards
The End of the River
The Lemon
The Horse's Ha
The School for Witches
The Mouse and the Woman
A Prospect of the Sea
The Holy Six
Prologue to an Adventure
The Map of Love
In the Direction of the Beginning
An Adventure from a Work in Progress

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

The Peaches
A Visit to Grandpa's
Patricia, Edith and Arnold
The Fight
Extraordinary Little Cough
Just Like Little Dogs
Where Tawe Flows
Who Do You Wish Was With Us?
Old Garbo
One Warm Saturday

Adventures in the Skin Trade

A Fine Beginning
Plenty of Furniture
Four Lost Souls
Quite Early One Morning
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Holiday Memory
The Crumbs of One Man's Year
Return Journey
The Followers
A Story (also known as The Outing)

Appendix: Early Stories

Brember
Jarley's
In the Garden
Gaspar, Melchior, Balthasar