Then there is "Cold Comfort Farm," Stella Gibbons witty literary parody of various authors who wrote novels where the heroine tidies up someone's dysfunctional life. But I always enjoyed as a straight story as well.

No one has mentioned John Collier's fine book of "witty, ironic and subtly lethal" short stories entitled "Fancies & Goodnights." I used to find them hysterically funny. Maybe it's time to reread them? My friends and I at college used to enjoy readings these to one another. It was our early version of a wireless network.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble