Book Preview Mom, Dad, Jenny, and Kevin the Squid, I’m sorry I left and I’m sorry I can’t come back, and for everything I’m sure you’ve been through in the past however many years. I’m sorry you were given this note and know I was here but left without saying hello or good-bye. I was … Read more
Book Preview CHARACTER GUIDE Joey’s Team Joey Harker J/O HrKr—male, younger cyborg version of Joey. Jai—male, senior officer. Spiritual, likes big words. Jakon Haarkanen—female, wolflike. Jo—female, has white wings, can fly only on magic worlds. Josef—male, comes from a denser planet. Large and strong. Other Walkers of Note Jaya—female, red-gold hair, voice like a siren. … Read more
Book Preview Once I got lost in my own house. I guess it wasn’t quite as bad as it sounds. We had just built a new annex—added a hallway and a bedroom for the squid, aka Kevin, my really little brother—but still, the carpenters had left and the dust had settled over a month ago. … Read more
Book Preview ‘A very fine and imaginative writer’ The Sunday Times ‘Exhilarating and terrifying’ Independent ‘Urbane and sophisticated’ Time Out ‘A jaw-droppingly good, scary epic positively drenched in metaphors and symbols … As Gaiman is to literature, so Antoni Gaudi was to architecture’ Midweek ‘Neil Gaiman is a very good writer indeed’ Daily Telegraph ‘Exuberantly … Read more
Book Preview How Nobody Came to the Graveyard THERE WAS A HAND IN the darkness, and it held a knife. The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. If it sliced you, you might not even know you had been cut, not immediately. The knife … Read more
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Book Preview Snow, Glass, Apples Copyright (c) 1994 Neil Gaiman I do not know what manner of thing she is. None of us do. She killed her mother in the birthing, but that’s never enough to account for it. They call me wise, but I am far from wise, for all that I foresaw fragments … Read more
Book Preview HARPERCOLLINS E-BOOK SPECIAL FEATURE: Three stories not available in the print edition of this book But where there’s a monster there’s a miracle. READING THE ENTRAILS: A RONDEL They’ll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate… They do it with mirrors. It’s a cliché, of course, but it’s also… Mrs. Whitaker … Read more
Book Preview THERE WAS A BOY called Odd, and there was nothing strange or unusual about that, not in that time or place. Odd meant the tip of a blade, and it was a lucky name. He was odd, though. At least, the other villagers thought so. But if there was one thing that he … Read more
Book Preview BEFORE THE BEGINNING, AND AFTER YGGDRASIL AND THE NINE WORLDS MIMIR’S HEAD AND ODIN’S EYE THE TREASURES OF THE GODS FREYA’S UNUSUAL WEDDING THOR’S JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE GIANTS THE APPLES OF IMMORTALITY THE STORY OF GERD AND FREY HYMIR AND THOR’S FISHING EXPEDITION THE LAST DAYS OF LOKI RAGNAROK: THE … Read more
Book Preview The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself. He had begun the evening by enjoying himself: he had enjoyed reading the good-bye cards, and receiving the hugs from several not entirely unattractive young ladies of his acquaintance; he had enjoyed the warnings about the evils and dangers of … Read more
Book Preview W HEN I WAS YOUNG, and it doesn’t really seem that long ago, I loved books of short stories. Short stories could be read from start to finish in the kind of times I had available for reading—morning break, or after-lunch nap, or on trains. They’d set up, they’d roll, and they’d take … Read more
Book Preview “I think…that I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.” The words turned up in a dream and I wrote them down upon waking, uncertain what they meant or to whom they applied. My original plan for this book of tales and imaginings, some eight years … Read more
Book Preview I. Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. It was a very old house—it had an attic under the roof and a cellar under the ground and an overgrown garden with huge old trees in it. Coraline’s family didn’t own all of the house—it was too big … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER ONE WHICH IS MOSTLY ABOUT NAMES AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the stars and the … Read more
Book Preview An Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition I don’t know what it’s like to read this book. I only know what it was like to live the writing of it. I moved to America in 1992. Something started, in the back of my head. There were unrelated ideas that I knew were … Read more
Book Preview American Gods is Neil Gaiman’s best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn’t sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he’s … Read more