| ANDTHEPEA | Nursery story, The Princess ... (3,3,3) |
| PEA | Hans Christian Andersen story, The Princess and the ___ |
| FAIRY | Nursery story, ... tale |
| GOLDILOCKS | Crazy dog kills old Charlie character in nursery story (10) |
| STANDBYME | Name the 1986 film based on the Stephen King story The Body. (5,2,2) |
| LAWNMOWER | Stephen King short story; The _ Man (9) |
| LIMESCALE | Mexican drink in story - the hard stuff? |
| MIDDLEMAS | Richard --, character in Sir Walter Scott's story 'The Surgeon's Daughter' (9) |
| ESMERALDA | Gypsy girl in Victor Hugo's story The Hunchback of Notre Dame (9) |
| AGATHA | Forename of the "Queen of Crime" who wrote the story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and the novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas (6) |
| LAWRENCE | Author of The White Peacock, The Rainbow and Lady Chatterley's Lover, as well the poetry collection Birds, Beasts and Flowers and short story The Rocking-Horse Winner (8) |
| FITZGERALD | F. Scott -; novelist who wrote The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night and the short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (10) |
| FALLENIDOL | Graham Greene adapted his short story The Basement Room to produce the screen play for the 1948 film The ____ |
| SWORDIN | Merlin the magician features in the Disney animation of TH White's story, The ... The Stone (5,2) |
| PLUTO | God of the underworld identified with Hades; the name of a cat in Edgar Allan Poe's short story The |
| BATTKEOFLIFE | The ___: A Love Story; the fourth in order of the five Christmas books by Charles Dickens (6,2,4) |
| RUE | Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story, The Murders In The ... Morgue (3) |
| TOADOFTOAD | And 3 Dn. Dramatisation by A. A. Milne of the children's story The Wind in the Willows (4,2,4,4) |
| POE | Author of the first detective story The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
| IDOL | The Fallen ___, 1948 Carol Reed film based on the short story The Basement Room by Graham Greene |
