Sir Terry wrote the stories for a regional newspaper under the pseudonym Patrick Kearns in the 1970s and 80s. Smythe said: "For all the years I was Terry's publisher and then agent he never ever gave me any help in finding his shorter writings - but as he wrote in his dedication to me in Dragons at Crumbling Castle, there were stories he had carefully hidden away. The stories will be published on 5 October under the title A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories