Contents ( 107)
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- I
- SOME THINGS I BELIEVE
- Credo
- Telling Lies for a Living . . . And Why We Do It: The Newbery Medal Speech, 2009
- Four Bookshops
- The Pornography of Genre, or the Genre of Pornography
- Ghosts in the Machines: Some Hallowe’en Thoughts.
- How Dare You: On America, and Writing About It
- All Books Have Genders
- The PEN Awards and Charlie Hebdo
- II
- SOME PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN
- These Are Not Our Faces
- Reflections: On Diana Wynne Jones
- Terry Pratchett: An Appreciation
- On Dave McKean
- How to Read Gene Wolfe
- Remembering Douglas Adams
- Harlan Ellison: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
- Banging the Drum for Harlan Ellison
- On Stephen King, for the Sunday Times
- Geoff Notkin: Meteorite Man
- Gumshoe: A Book Review
- SIMCITY
- Six to Six
- III
- INTRODUCTIONS AND MUSINGS: SCIENCE FICTION
- Fritz Leiber: The Short Stories
- Hothouse
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and What Science Fiction Is and Does
- Of Time, and Gully Foyle: Alfred Bester and The Stars My Destination
- Samuel R. Delany and The Einstein Intersection
- On the Fortieth Anniversary of the Nebula Awards: A Speech, 2005
- IV
- FILMS AND MOVIES AND ME
- The Bride of Frankenstein
- MirrorMask: An Introduction
- MirrorMask: A Sundance Diary
- The Nature of the Infection: Some Thoughts on Doctor Who
- On Comics and Films: 2006
- V
- ON COMICS AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEM
- Good Comics and Tulips: A Speech
- “But What Has That to Do with Bacchus?” Eddie Campbell and Deadface
- Confessions: On Astro City and Kurt Busiek
- Batman: Cover to Cover
- Bone: An Introduction, and Some Subsequent Thoughts
- Jack Kirby: King of Comics
- The Simon and Kirby Superheroes
- The Spirit of Seventy-Five
- The Best of the Spirit
- Will Eisner: New York Stories
- The Keynote Speech for the 2003 Eisner Awards
- 2004 Harvey Awards Speech
- The Best American Comics, 2010
- VI
- INTRODUCTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS
- Some Strangeness in the Proportion: The Exquisite Beauties of Edgar Allan Poe
- On The New Annotated Dracula
- Rudyard Kipling’s Tales of Horror and Fantasy
- The Mystery of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown
- Concerning Dreams and Nightmares: The Dream Stories of H. P. Lovecraft
- On The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
- Votan and Other Novels by John James
- On Viriconium: Some Notes Toward an Introduction
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: An Introduction
- Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
- Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore
- Art and Artifice by Jim Steinmeyer
- The Moth: An Introduction
- VII
- MUSIC AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT
- Hi, By the Way: Tori Amos
- Curious Wine: Tori Amos II
- Flood: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, They Might Be Giants
- Lou Reed, in Memoriam: “The Soundtrack to My Life”
- Waiting for the Man: Lou Reed
- Afterword Afterword: Evelyn Evelyn
- Who Killed Amanda Palmer
- VIII
- ON STARDUST AND FAIRY TALES
- Once Upon a Time
- Several Things About Charles Vess
- The King of Elfland’s Daughter, Lord Dunsany
- Lud-in-the-Mist
- The Thing of It Is: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- On Richard Dadd’s The Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke
- IX
- MAKE GOOD ART
- Make Good Art
- X
- THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS: REAL THINGS
- The View from the Cheap Seats
- A Wilderness of Mirrors
- The Dresden Dolls: Hallowe’en 2010
- Eight Views of Mount Fuji: Beloved Demons and Anthony Martignetti
- So Many Ways to Die in Syria Now: May 2014
- A Slip of the Keyboard: Terry Pratchett
- Credits
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Neil Gaiman
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
Index
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Abel, Jessica, 310
Academy Awards (Oscars), 463–69
Acker, Kathy, 188
Adams, Douglas, 11, 103, 114–16, 367–72; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 114–15, 368, 370–72; “Remembering Douglas Adams,” 114–16; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, 367–72
Adams, Neal, 264–65
Addams, Charles, 51
“Afterword Afterword: Evelyn Evelyn,” 415–18
Agnew, Spiro, 121, 122
Aladdin Sane (album), 475
Aldiss, Brian, 169–76, 194, 195; Billion Year Spree, 169, 191; Hothouse, 169–76
Alex Award, 85
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators (Arthur), 17
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 68
“All Books Have Genders,” 67–72
Allen, Woody, 269
Allred, Michael, 279
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The (Pratchett and Briggs), 103–4
America, 64–66
American Gods (Gaiman), 62, 64–65, 68–72, 77, 85, 193, 357–58
American Library Association, 297
Amis, Martin, 403, 405
Amos, Tori, 389–93
Anderson, Brent, 261
Anderson, Poul, 193
Andrews, Julie, 139
And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game (Forrest), 27, 84
Angry Candy (Ellison), 123
Anno Dracula (Newman), 323
“Apt Pupil” (King), 133
Archer’s Goon (Jones), 97
Ardingly College (school), 26-27
“Argonauts of the Air, The” (Wells), 334–35
Aristocrats, The (movie), 215, 216
Arkham House, 349
Art, 451–59
Art and Artifice: And Other Essays on Illusion (Steinmeyer), Introduction to, 380–82
Asimov, Isaac, 27, 196
Askwith, Mark, 267, 268–69
Aston House (school), 78–79
Astounding Science Fiction, 340–41, 343
Astro City: Confession (Busiek), Introduction to, 257–62
Austin, Alan, 282–84
Author photographs, 93–94
Bacchae, The (Euripides), 254
Bacchus, 253–55
Bag of Bones (King), 134
Baker, Tom, 219
Baker Street Irregulars, 325
Balcombe, Florence, 325
Baldwin, Alec, 466
Ballard, J. G., 121, 165, 171
Banks, John, 28–29, 30
Barker, Clive, 148
Barks, Carl, 271
Barry, Lynda, 312
Batman (movie), 222
Batman: Cover to Cover, 263–66
Baynes, Pauline, 34, 35
Beagle, Peter S., xv–xvi, 35–36
Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, The (Ellison), Foreword to, 117–24
Bechdel, Alison, 73
“Bells, The” (song), 406, 408
Beloved Demons (Martignetti), Introduction to, 483–90
Berger, Karen, 280
Berlin (album), 398, 400
Best American Comics 2010, Introduction to, 308–13
Bester, Alfred, 183–88
Best of the Spirit, The (Eisner), Introduction to, 286–89
Betty and Veronica, 305
Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics of Lou Reed, 403–4, 407, 410–12
Biard, Gérard, 76
Bigelow, Kathryn, 468
Big Time, The (Leiber), 167
Billion Year Spree (Aldiss), 169, 191
“Birdhouse in Your Soul” (song), 394
Birkin, Charles, 82
Black Orchid (Gaiman and McKean), 107
Blair, Tony, 225
Blish, James, 170
Bloch, Robert, 348
Bloody Chamber, The (Carter), 425
“Blue Cross, The” (Chesterton), 344–45
Blyberg, Will, 261
Blyton, Enid, 7
“Body, The” (King), 133
Bogart, Humphrey, 100
Bolland, Brian, 233
Bone (Smith), 267–73, 305
“Bone: An Introduction, and Some Subsequent Thoughts,” 267–73
Bookshops, 26–32, 83–84
Borglum, Gutzon, 118, 122
Bowie, David, 398, 475
Boy Commandos, 279–80
Bradbury, Ray, 47, 49, 83, 177–82, 339; Fahrenheit 451, 177–82, 318; The Martian Chronicles, 27, 181; The Silver Locusts, 27, 181; “Usher II,” 317–18