Tales from the White Hart

wikipedia---Tales from the White Hart is a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, in the "club tales" style. 13 of the 15 stories originally appeared across a number of different publications. "Moving Spirit" and "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" were first published in this book and hence presumably were written specifically for it. "Defenestration" rounds off the cycle of stories and explicitly mentions their book publication. A character named Harry Purvis tells a series of tall tales. Characters inhabiting the White Hart include science fiction writers Samuel Youd (aka John Christopher), John Wyndham aka John Beynon, and Clarke himself in addition to the narrative voice as his pseudonym Charles Willis.