Trigger warning : short fictions and disturbances

Gaiman, Neil, author.

Book 2021

This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a Doctor Who story written for the series' fiftieth anniversary (Nothing o'clock). There is also "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of his novel American Gods. The collection explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Horror and ghosts s...

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Death Fiction

Doctor (Fictitious character) Fiction

Emotions Fiction

Holmes, Sherlock Fiction

Identity (Psychology) Fiction

Vulnerability (Personality trait) Fiction

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Fiction Short stories

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ISBN:

9780063052048
0063052040

Description:

xl, 339 pages ; 18 cm

Contents:

Introduction
Making a chair
A lunar labyrinth
The thing about Cassandra
Down to a sunless sea
"The truth is a cave in the Black Mountains ..."
My last landlady
Adventure story
Orange
A calendar of tales
The case of death and honey
The man who forgot Ray Bradbury
Jerusalem
Click-Clack the rattlebag
An invocation of incuriosity
"And weep, like Alexander"
Nothing o'clock
Diamonds and pearls: a fairy tale
The return of the thin white duke
Feminine endings
Observing the formalities
The sleeper and the spindle
Witch work
In Relig Odhráin
Black Dog

Control Number:

3029383

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