Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey is a collection of fantasy short stories

Short Stories

Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...

, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens

Joseph Jorkens

Joseph Jorkens, usually referred to simply as Jorkens, is the lead character in over 150 short stories written by the Irish author Lord Dunsany between 1925 and 1957...

, by author Lord Dunsany

Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany...

. It was first published in London

London

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 by Michael Joseph in 1954

1954 in literature

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. It was the fifth collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published. It has also been issued in combination with the sixth book, The Last Book of Jorkens

The Last Book of Jorkens

The Last Book of Jorkens is a collection of fantasy short stories around the character Joseph Jorkens by author Lord Dunsany. First prepared for publication in early 1957, it was left unpublished on Dunsany's death later that year, and was finally issued in a limited first special edition only in...

, in the omnibus edition The Collected Jorkens, Volume Three, published by Night Shade Books

Night Shade Books

Night Shade Books is an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It was started in 1997 by Jason Williams, with Jeremy Lassen coming on board as a partner shortly after the company's founding...

in 2005.

The book collects thirty-four short pieces by Dunsany, and in one key story, Jorkens is joined in the story by his most common adversary, Terbut.

Contents

• "Preface"

1. "The Two-Way War"
2. "A Nice Lot of Diamonds"
3. "Letting Bygones be Bygones"
4. "The Lost Invention"
5. "On Other Paths"
6. "The Partner"
7. "Poulet a la Richelieu"
8. "A Walk in the Night"
9. "One Summer's Evening"
10. "A Friend of the Family"
11. "An Eccentricity of Genius"
12. "Influenza"
13. "The Unrecorded Test Match"
14. "Idle Tears"
15. "Among the Neutrals"
16. "An Idyll of the Sahara"
17. "The Devil among the Willows"
18. "A Spanish Castle"
19. "The New Moon"
20. "The Gods of Clay"
21. "A Rash Remark"
22. "The Story of Jorkens' Watch"
23. "The Track Through the Wood"
24. "Snow Water"
25. "The Greatest Invention"
26. "The Verdict"
27. "A Conversation in Bond Street"
28. "The Reward"
29. "Which Way?"
30. "A Desperado in Surrey"
31. "Misadventure"
32. "A Long Memory"
33. "An Absentminded Professor"
34. "Greek Meets Greek"