Novel Notes

Jerome, Jerome K. "Novel Notes" (vt "The Dancing Partner"). Interpolated narrative in Novel Notes. London: Leadenhall, 1893. The Idler, August 1893. Rpt. The Omnibus of Crime. Dorothy L. Sayers, ed. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publications, 1929.

Sayers puts "NN" in her Category for "supernatural Stories" (following A. Bierce's "Moxon's Master"), but "NN" is neither a crime story nor supernatural but the tale of an electrically run "clockwork dancer" (Crime 811), who dances "his" partner to death while repeating from a phonograph the clichés appropriate to a young gallant at a dance. (Classified as a robot story by S. Moskowitz, S. F. by Gaslight [see under Anthologies] 22-23).