Edited by Paula Guran. Prime, $19.95 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-1-60701-431-7
In Guran’s fifth edition of eclectic nightmares, new and veteran authors blend psychological terror and supernatural wonder into disturbing hybrid tales, which confront “that which we do not know.” Many of these stories first appeared in small-press
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Neil Gaiman. Norton, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-60909-7
Having already appropriated Odin and Loki for his novel American Gods, Gaiman turns his restless imagination to a retelling of Norse folklore (a youthful interest of his). He begins by introducing us to the three main mythological figures: Odin, the
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Neil Gaiman. Morrow, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-233026-0
Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) again delivers masterful compositions and style in his third collection. His decision to include poetry is vindicated by the concrete images in "Making a Chair" and the mournful tones of "Witch Work." Among...
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Neil Gaiman. Morrow, $26.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-0622-6226-4
This collection conclusively proves that Gaiman is just as accomplished an essayist as he is an author of fiction (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) and comics (The Sandman). Echoing Rainer Maria Rilke’s sentiment that “To praise is the whole thing,”
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Neil Gaiman, Author . Morrow $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-051522-5
Hot off the critical success of Anansi Boys
, Gaiman offers this largely disappointing medley that feels like a collection of idea seeds that have yet to mature. Among the ground covered: an old woman eats her cat alive, slowly; two teenage boys...
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Neil Gaiman, Author . Morrow $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-051518-8
If readers found the Sandman
series creator's last novel, American Gods
, hard to classify, they will be equally nonplussed—and equally entertained—by this brilliant mingling of the mundane and the fantastic. "Fat Charlie"...
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Neil Gaiman, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-97363-7
London businessman Richard Mayhew sees an injured, homeless girl on the street one evening and is compelled to bring her back to his apartment. In this debut novel by Gaiman, author of the wildly successful graphic novel series The Sandman, the girl,
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Neil Gaiman, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-380-97364-4
Imaginative twists on old legends and frightening glimpses into the impossible combine to form this impressive collection of 30 stories and poems by the author of Neverwhere and co-creator of The Sandman graphic novels. Each entry skirts the edges...
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Neil Gaiman, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-380-97728-4
Wallace Stevens believed that in order to see the actual world, it helps to visualize a fantastic one. For more than a decade, Gaiman has been helping readers grapple with reality by offering fantastic worlds in visionary graphic novels like The...
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Neil Gaiman, Author Pocket Books $9 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66426-8
Definitely a devotee's book, Don't Panic operates on several levels at once. The book pokes hilarious fun at the tell-all books by cult heroes as well as at the industry that inevitably grows up around phenomenal successes like Douglas Adams's...
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Neil Gaiman, Author . Morrow $26 (480p) ISBN 978-0-380-97365-1
Titans clash, but with more fuss than fury in this fantasy demi-epic from the author of Neverwhere. The intriguing premise of Gaiman's tale is that the gods of European yore, who came to North America with their immigrant believers, are squaring
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Terry Prachett, With Berkley Publishing Group $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-13215-9
This zany tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an 11-year-old Antichrist and a doomsaying witch; unmistakably British humor is in abundance. (Mar.)
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Craig P. Russell, Author, P. Craig Russell, Author . DC/Vertigo $24.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2424-0
Gaiman's novella The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
, previously illustrated by acclaimed Japanese artist Yoshitako Amano, has been reimagined by award-winning artist Russell. This new release celebrates the 20th anniversary of Gaiman's...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Jeff Youngquist, Editor, Andy Kubert, Illustrator . Marvel $24.99 (248p) ISBN 978-0-7851-1070-5
The always inventive Gaiman has concocted an unlikely—but fantastically successful—superhero comic that transfers Marvel's classic characters to the Elizabethan period. Nick Fury is still a lethal government operative, but now he'
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Neil Gaiman, Read by , read by the author. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-137387-9
Gaiman assumes the role of narrator for his latest book, offering an intimate reading that steals one's attention almost immediately and keeps the listener involved throughout. As the story is based in the United Kingdom, Gaiman is a...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Neil Gaiman, Read by HarperAudio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-114237-6
The 30 short stories and poems in this collection vary widely in theme and tone, from the dark, recursive ""Other People"" to the witty, R.A. Laffertyesque ""Sunbird."" Aside from one new tale, ""How to Talk to Girls at Parties,"" all material has...
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Neil Gaiman, read by the author. HarperAudio, unabridged, 13 CDs, 15.5 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-0-06-241719-0
Pooling together his various nonfiction works over the decades, including articles, reviews, book introductions, speeches, and more, Gaiman gives listeners a fascinating exploration into his own mind and artistic influences. Whether he’s discussing...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Edward E. Kramer, With HarperPrism $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-100833-7
Though he won the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction in 1991, Gaiman is best known as the writer who transformed the WWII-era DC Comics character the Sandman from a Batman-style detective/vigilante into the much darker Morpheus, aka Dream, the...
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Neil Gaiman, adapted by P. Craig Russell,
illus. by Scott Hampton, Tony Harris, et al. Harper, $17.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-219481-7
As he did with Coraline, Russell makes the recasting of Gaiman’s Newbery-winning novel into graphic form look easy with this vastly entertaining adaptation, first in a two-book set (the second volume is due in late September). Russell conceives the...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Michael Reaves, Author . HarperCollins/Eos $16.99 (239p) ISBN 978-0-06-123896-3
This parallel universe adventure would surely have been more exciting when its authors first conceived it in 1995; today it feels somewhat like a gee-whiz amalgam of The Matrix
, comic book multiverses and Ender’s Game
. High-schooler Joey...
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Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran. Dark Horse, $14.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-50670-008-3
This book continues Dark Horse’s series of older Gaiman short stories illustrated by prominent comics talents; the original story was published in 1993. This version begins with a black-haired boy, Jack, wandering through an idyllic English...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Skottie Young. Harper, $14.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-222407-1
In a letter to readers, Gaiman explains that his rationale for writing this story, about a father who has taken an excessively long time to return from the corner store with milk for his children’s breakfast, stems from his reconsideration of the...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Glenn Fabry, Author, Milo Manara, Author and various illustrators. Vertigo/DC Comics $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0089-3
Now that he's a bestselling fantasy novelist, Gaiman returns to the comics series that made his reputation with this new volume of seven gorgeously illustrated stories. Gaiman specializes in inventing fantastic allegories for the quotidian, in a
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Teddy Kristiansen, Illustrator . HarperCollins $16.99 (260p) ISBN 978-0-06-118642-4
Taking both inspiration and naming convention from Ray Bradbury’s R Is for Rocket
and S Is for Space
, Gaiman’s first YA anthology is a fine collection of previously published short stories. Although Gaiman’s prose skill has...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Lorenzo Mattotti. Candlewick/Toon Graphics, $16.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-9351-7962-7
Master storyteller Gaiman (The Graveyard Book) plumbs the dark depths of Hansel and Gretel, imagining the pair’s mother scheming to abandon them (“Two dead are better than four dead,” she tells their father. “That is mathematics, and it is logic”)...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Brett Helquist, Illustrator , illus. by Brett Helquist. Harper $14.99 (117p) ISBN 978-0-06-167173-9
In this simple but well-done tale, Newbery Medal–winner Gaiman (The Graveyard Book
) introduces Odd, a boy with an injured leg whose Viking father died at sea. Odd befriends the Norse gods Odin, Thor and Loki, who have been transformed into...
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Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III. DC/Vertigo, $24.00 (224) ISBN 978-1-4012-4896-3
Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane) and Williams (Batwoman) revisit the dark world of the Endless in this splendid prequel. Morpheus, the manifestation and master of dreams, has found himself embroiled in a galaxy-spanning crisis: a sentient...
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Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli. Dark Horse, $12.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5067-0025-0
Two of Gaiman’s short horror stories rendered in a classic literary mode get illustrated in stately fashion by Zulli. In “The Price,” a mysterious black cat takes up residence in a writer’s country home, and the writer’s attentions turn to solving...
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Neil Gaiman, read by the author. HarperAudio, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 6.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-0-06-266363-4
Gaiman is a talented storyteller, as both writer and a narrator. In his latest audiobook, he turns both talents to an imaginative retelling of old Norse folklore. The figures in these myths are well-known to most people: Odin, the highest and oldest
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Andy Kubert, Illustrator, Simon Bisley, Illustrator . DC $24.99 (8p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2303-8
Following the “death” of Bruce Wayne in last year's “Batman: R.I.P.” arc comes Gaiman's loving eulogy not just to Batman but to the Batman of each era since the character's debut. Bolstered by slick art from...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Charles Vess, Harper, $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-196030-7
"Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never saw before," invites Gaiman's poem, first published in A Wolf at the Door (2000), reborn as a lavishly illustrated small-format picture book. A bipedal, bushy-tailed cat, wearing attire befitting Robin...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Charles Vess, Illustrator , illus. by Charles Vess. HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-083808-9
In a magical blessing for unconventional girls, Gaiman (The Graveyard Book
) addresses the “ladies of light and ladies of darkness and ladies of never-you-mind,” asking them to shelter and guide an infant girl as she grows. “Help...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Dagmara Matuszak, Illustrator . Hill House $90 (64p) ISBN 978-0-931771-04-0
The heroine of the latest book by Gaiman (Sandman
; American Gods)
is a jaded young girl, playing in a ruined urban landscape populated by rats, crows and sinister-looking pike. Gaiman approaches the story as if he were writing a children's...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Michael Zulli, Illustrator . Dark Horse $14.95 (103p) ISBN 978-1-59307-414-2
Gaiman meets rock star Alice Cooper in this Halloween tale that originally appeared in the early 1990s. It adapts a story from Cooper's album Lost in America
, to which Gaiman contributed story and lyrics. Halloween is coming, and young teenager
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Michael Zulli, Illustrator, Neil Gaiman, Illustrator with Alice Cooper, illus. by Michael Zulli. Dark Horse $9.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-56971-455-3
A spooky collaboration between novelist and comics writer Gaiman (Sandman; and see review of American Gods, above) and creepy shock rocker Cooper, this is the story of Steven, a boy with many fears: girls, ghost stories and growing up among them. On
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Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. Dark Horse, $24.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-616552-68-8
Originally serialized in The Face in the early ‘90s and wearing its age handsomely, Gaiman and McKean’s collaboration feels ahead of its time while also resembling something from another era—less like a comic, more like storyboards for a heady...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Peter Straub, Author, Jill Thompson, Author Vertigo $19.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56389-138-0
Gaiman's very popular Sandman series (this is the eighth book in the series) continues with another tale of the Endless, the family of mythic cosmic beings that govern the psychic and physical realms of Dream, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium,...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, P. Craig Russell, Illustrator, Neil Craig Gaiman, Illustrator , illus. by P. Craig Russell. Dark Horse $13.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-56971-634-2
Celebrated comics creators Gaiman (Sandman) and Russell (The Ring of the Nibelung) have teamed up to produce a story of deception and vengeance involving the first betrayal, the first heartbreak and the first crime in God's own city of angels....
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Chris Bachalo, Illustrator, Mark Buckingham, Illustrator Vertigo $12.99 (104p) ISBN 978-1-56389-133-5
The High Cost of Living is a continuation of Harvey Award-winning fantasy writer Gaiman's series detailing the cosmic duties of a loose family of seven immortals. Not quite Gods, they embody realms of psychic experience: Dream, Desire, Despair,...
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Edited by Ross E. Lockhart. Night Shade, $15.99 (540p) ISBN 978-1-59780-232-1
The enduring allure of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, now nearly a century old, is evident in this representative anthology of modern tales, most of which were written in the last decade. The breadth of cosmic horrors they evoke range from the...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Adam Rex. Harper, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-222397-5
In his second outing, Chu the sneeze-prone panda is anxious that his classmates won’t like him. At school, the students take turns introducing themselves and what they love to do (“My name is Pablo. I love to climb up things,” says a tamarin). “There
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Neil Gaiman, Fabio Moon, and Gabriel Ba. Dark Horse, $23.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-61655-955-7
Gaiman’s Hugo-nominated short story gets a graphic adaptation ahead of a planned cinematic one, and Ba and Moon (Daytripper) deliver exquisite art that elevates the tale’s surprisingly mundane premise. Transparent author insert and clueless straight-
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Gris Grimly, Illustrator , illus. by Gris Grimly. HarperCollins $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-078333-4
Acrawl with evildoers, Gaiman's (The Wolves in the Walls
) rhyming abecedary charts the perils of two children and their limpid-eyed pet gazelle. With the words “A is for Always, that's where we embark;/ B is for Boat, pushing off...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Gaiman Neil, Read by, Neil Gaiman, Read by , read by the author. HarperChildren's Audio $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-073298-1
As author Gaiman demonstrated on his recording of his first children's novel, Coraline
, he's more than up to the task of reading his work with great style. Here, again, he performs as a consummate storyteller, reading four stories, two of...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Lenny Henry, Read by , read by Lenny Henry. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-082384-9
Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life is turned upside down when his father dies and a brother he never knew he had shows up at his doorstep. When that brother, Spider, starts to wear out his welcome, Fat Charlie learns that his father was not a man...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, John Romita, Jr., Illustrator Marvel $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7851-2541-9
J
ack Kirby's old Eternals series gets a serious dusting-off from Gaiman (Anansi Boys
) and artist Romita. The Eternals, a super-race, are now scattered and forgetful of their powers and immortality, living mortal human lives of supreme...
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Neil Gaiman, read by a full cast. HarperAudio, unabridged, 1 CD, 1 hr., $13.99 ISBN 978-0-06-243513-2
In this twist on a fairy tale, the audiobook uses a full cast to great effect. A tough, no-nonsense queen, who may or may not be Snow White, hears about a princess who was placed under a sleeping spell. The magic appears to be spreading, plunging...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Chris Riddell. Harper, $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-239824-6
Always a superb spinner of tales, Gaiman presents a filigreed elaboration of Sleeping Beauty that, before long, reveals itself as something more. Three dwarves discover a realm in which everyone has fallen asleep, and they cross into the next...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Terry Pratchett, Author, Martin Jarvis, Performed by , read by Martin Jarvis. Harper Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-173581-3
The end of the world is coming, and the portents are everywhere. All is dependent on the anti-Christ—if the agents of good and evil here on Earth can find him. Action-packed with flaming swords and freakish catastrophes, the 20-year-old novel...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Dave McKean, Illustrator , illus. by Dave McKean. HarperTrophy $6.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-380-81095-6
When the wolves begin to come out of the walls, a girl comes up with a strategy to frighten them off. "Gaiman's text rings with energetic confidence and an inviting tone," wrote PW
. "McKean expertly matches the tale's funny-scar
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Dave McKean, Illustrator , illus. by Dave McKean. HarperCollins $17.99 (312p) ISBN 978-0-06-053092-1
A lavish middle-grade novel, Gaiman's first since Coraline
, this gothic fantasy almost lives up to its extravagant advance billing. The opening is enthralling: “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.” Evading the...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Dave McKean, Illustrator , illus. by Dave McKean. HarperCollins $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-057908-1
“Mister, you've got crazy hair,” Bonnie, a girl in a tank top, tells the narrator, whose dark hair twists and tangles across the spreads. (Are they strangers? Relatives? McKean's masklike faces make it hard to tell.) “In...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Dave McKean, Illustrator , illus. by Dave McKean. HarperTrophy $5.99 (162p) ISBN 978-0-380-80734-5
When a girl moves into an old house, she finds a door leading to a world that eerily mimics her own, but with sinister differences. "An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons," wrote PW
in a boxed review....
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Dave McKean, Illustrator , illus. by Dave McKean. HarperCollins $16.99 (56p) ISBN 978-0-380-97827-4
"If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over," is the oft-repeated prediction in Gaiman's latest, a picture book that cleverly balances humor and spookiness in a slightly off-kilter setting. As he did in his novel Coraline,...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Dave McKean, Illustrator , illus. by Dave McKean. HarperCollins $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-380-97778-9
British novelist Gaiman (American Gods; Stardust) and his long-time accomplice McKean (collaborators on a number of Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels as well as The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish) spin an electrifyingly creepy tale likely to...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Dave McKean, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-058701-7
Neil Gaiman's wry The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illus. by Dave McKean, returns in a new edition that includes Gaiman's narration on an included CD, as well as new cover art and an afterword by the author. PW said this tale of a boy who...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Terry Pratchett, With Workman Publishing $18.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-89480-853-1
When a scatterbrained Satanist nun goofs up a baby-switching scheme and delivers the infant Antichrist to the wrong couple, it's just the beginning of the comic errors in the divine plan for Armageddon which this fast-paced novel by two British...
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Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-354-9
Fall is the traditional time for ghost stories, and readers will find a wealth of unnatural shades and haunted places in this far-ranging anthology of 29 reprints and Stephen Graham Jones’s grim original “Uncle.” Richard Bowes’s “There’s a Hole in...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Adam Rex. Harper, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-201781-9
No wolves in the walls or button-eyed parents in this story about a baby panda named Chu. Yet Gaiman builds suspense from the enigmatic opening sentence (“When Chu sneezed, bad things happened”), which frames a portrait of the
roly-poly protagonist,
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Neil Gaiman. William Morrow, $25.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-225565-5
“Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later... but they are never lost for good”—and the most grim of those memories, no matter how faint, can haunt one forever, as they do the anonymous narrator of...
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Edited by Neil Gaiman with Maria Dahvana Headley. Harper, $17.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-223630-2
In this striking anthology of 16 stories of strange and incredible creatures (most previously published), Gaiman and Headley have included several classic tales, such as Frank R. Stockton’s delightful “The Griffin and the Minor Canon” (1885), which...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Divya Srinivasan. Harper, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-239961-8
Cinnamon, the heroine of this Just So–style story, lives in a magnificent palace, wears an orange sari, and has pearls for eyes, “which gave her great beauty, but meant she was blind.” Cinnamon doesn’t talk, and her parents, the Rajah and Rani,...
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Edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin. Solaris, $15.99 trade paperback (356p) ISBN 978-1781084175
Editors Shurin and Murad collect 22 stories about the shadowy, fiery beings called the djinn in this unusual anthology. One of the best is the seriously creepy “Reap” by Sami Shah, about a group in the New Mexico desert that operates a drone in...
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Edited by Dave McKean and William Schafer. Subterranean, $40 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59606-825-4
McKean’s storied career as an illustrator, comics creator, and fine artist is the basis for this magnificent anthology, which contains 12 stories inspired by specific McKean images (all of which are included), as well as a short McKean comic. High...
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Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran. Dark Horse, $17.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-5067-0979-6
Doran (Amazing Fantastic Incredible) outdoes herself in adapting Gaiman’s inventive short story into a stylish graphic novella. The dark fairy tale recasts “Snow White” from the queen’s point of view; in this version, White is a seductive vampire,...
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Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, and Scott Hampton. Dark Horse, $29.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5067-0386-2
Russell (The Sandman: Dream Hunters), a frequent collaborator with Gaiman, does a bang-up job in adapting the bestselling, campy supernatural prose titles into the first of three graphic novel collections. Ex-con Shadow’s life is thrown into chaos...
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Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Troy Nixey, and Matt Hollingsworth. Dark Horse, $19.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-5067-0612-2
First published by Oni Press in 2000, this tepid graphic novella has been reissued and repackaged in a significantly expanded format as part of the Neil Gaiman Library. Claims adjustor and werewolf Lawrence Talbot, evidently having survived the...
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Neil Gaiman, Rafael Albuquerque, and Rafael Scavone. Dark Horse, $17.99 (88p) ISBN 978-1-50670-393-0
The murder of a monstrous German royal sets a brilliant detective and his new partner upon the trail of an equally cunning adversary in this chilling adaptation of Gaiman’s 2003 short story. In this alternate history, set in a Lovecraftian version...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Chris Riddell. Quill Tree, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-293-457-4
Babysitting two skeptical siblings, Long John McRon, Ship’s Cook, and his pirate crew concoct a buccaneer-pleasing repast: “Pirate Stew, Pirate Stew,/ eat it and you won’t be blue./ You can be a pirate too!” What could possibly go awry? With...
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Neil Gaiman, illus. by Yuliya Gwilym et al. Quill Tree, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-335808-9
Aiming to raise money to help refugees caught in the cold of winter, Newbery Medalist and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ambassador Gaiman crowdsourced memories of warmth online, weaving them into an evocative poem that speaks to...
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Edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane. Titan, $16.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-80336-121-5
Dark magic runs rampant through this star-studded sequel to O’Regan and Kane’s Cursed anthology. “The Bell” by Joanne Harris makes a fitting opener, warning readers to be careful of acting without knowing what the consequences will be. Some of these
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Edited by William Dennis, J.H. Williams III, and Wendy Wright-Williams. Image, $19.99 trade paper (331p) ISBN 978-1-5343-0822-0
Including 95 comics by nearly 200 creators, this massive, powerful volume documents a wide array of voices and stories raised in protest against gun violence, created as a response to the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. Eyewitness Lee...
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Edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-78909-150-2
O’Regan and Kane, who previously collaborated as editors on Wonderland, an anthology of stories inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, bring together 18 new and reimagined fairy tales in this spellbinding anthology, bookended by poems from...
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Edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Titan, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-789099-99-7
The 30 stories in this superior anthology from Jakubowski (Invisible Blood) capture the feel of Woolrich’s iconic noir fiction. In a brief introduction, “Why Cornell Woolrich Matters,” Neil Gaiman aptly observes: “The world Cornell Woolrich painted...
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Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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