Global phenomenon and Sunday Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction, following smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things, which includes a never-before-published American Gods story, "Black Dog".
In this new volume, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction-stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013-as well as "Black Dog", a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods.
Trigger Warning is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explores the realm of experience and emotion.
In "Adventure Story"-a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane-Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience, "A Calendar of Tales", is short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months-of-the-year-stories of pirates and theMarch winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother's Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on SherlockHolmes in his award-nominated mystery tale "The Case of Death and honey". And "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we're all alone in the darkness.
A writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Trigger Warning engages the mind, stirs the heart, and shakes the soul. Neil Gaiman is one of the most original and popular literary artists of our day.
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[Today I intended to begin to write - MAKING A CHAIR]***
(Audible Audio, 3 February 2015, audiobook,11 hours 5 minutes, narrated by the author, Audible)
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Stories Included:
- 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
- Clack-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 Odhrain
- Black Dog
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I'm a huge fan of Neil Gaiman's work. Some of the myfavourites include American Gods and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. The collection gets off to a shaky start with a pretentious, name-dropping introduction. The stories more than made up for it though. I adored BlackDog, an American Gods story. It was a corker. I also loved the Doctor Who story though I can't remember what it was called. I also really enjoyed TheTruth is a Cave in the Black Mountains. I've read The Sleeper and the spindle before but it was a treat to listen to it here. This is a very good collection of stories and passed away the hours as I was writing in the mornings before going to work.
