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  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. I
  5. SOME THINGS I BELIEVE
  6. Credo
  7. Telling Lies for a Living . . . And Why We Do It: The Newbery Medal Speech, 2009
  8. Four Bookshops
  9. The Pornography of Genre, or the Genre of Pornography
  10. Ghosts in the Machines: Some Hallowe’en Thoughts.
  11. How Dare You: On America, and Writing About It
  12. All Books Have Genders
  13. The PEN Awards and Charlie Hebdo
  14. II
  15. SOME PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN
  16. These Are Not Our Faces
  17. Reflections: On Diana Wynne Jones
  18. Terry Pratchett: An Appreciation
  19. On Dave McKean
  20. How to Read Gene Wolfe
  21. Remembering Douglas Adams
  22. Harlan Ellison: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
  23. Banging the Drum for Harlan Ellison
  24. On Stephen King, for the Sunday Times
  25. Geoff Notkin: Meteorite Man
  26. Gumshoe: A Book Review
  27. SIMCITY
  28. Six to Six
  29. III
  30. INTRODUCTIONS AND MUSINGS: SCIENCE FICTION
  31. Fritz Leiber: The Short Stories
  32. Hothouse
  33. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and What Science Fiction Is and Does
  34. Of Time, and Gully Foyle: Alfred Bester and The Stars My Destination
  35. Samuel R. Delany and The Einstein Intersection
  36. On the Fortieth Anniversary of the Nebula Awards: A Speech, 2005
  37. IV
  38. FILMS AND MOVIES AND ME
  39. The Bride of Frankenstein
  40. MirrorMask: An Introduction
  41. MirrorMask: A Sundance Diary
  42. The Nature of the Infection: Some Thoughts on Doctor Who
  43. On Comics and Films: 2006
  44. V
  45. ON COMICS AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEM
  46. Good Comics and Tulips: A Speech
  47. “But What Has That to Do with Bacchus?” Eddie Campbell and Deadface
  48. Confessions: On Astro City and Kurt Busiek
  49. Batman: Cover to Cover
  50. Bone: An Introduction, and Some Subsequent Thoughts
  51. Jack Kirby: King of Comics
  52. The Simon and Kirby Superheroes
  53. The Spirit of Seventy-Five
  54. The Best of the Spirit
  55. Will Eisner: New York Stories
  56. The Keynote Speech for the 2003 Eisner Awards
  57. 2004 Harvey Awards Speech
  58. The Best American Comics, 2010
  59. VI
  60. INTRODUCTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS
  61. Some Strangeness in the Proportion: The Exquisite Beauties of Edgar Allan Poe
  62. On The New Annotated Dracula
  63. Rudyard Kipling’s Tales of Horror and Fantasy
  64. The Mystery of G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown
  65. Concerning Dreams and Nightmares: The Dream Stories of H. P. Lovecraft
  66. On The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
  67. Votan and Other Novels by John James
  68. On Viriconium: Some Notes Toward an Introduction
  69. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: An Introduction
  70. Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
  71. Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore
  72. Art and Artifice by Jim Steinmeyer
  73. The Moth: An Introduction
  74. VII
  75. MUSIC AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT
  76. Hi, By the Way: Tori Amos
  77. Curious Wine: Tori Amos II
  78. Flood: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, They Might Be Giants
  79. Lou Reed, in Memoriam: “The Soundtrack to My Life”
  80. Waiting for the Man: Lou Reed
  81. Afterword Afterword: Evelyn Evelyn
  82. Who Killed Amanda Palmer
  83. VIII
  84. ON STARDUST AND FAIRY TALES
  85. Once Upon a Time
  86. Several Things About Charles Vess
  87. The King of Elfland’s Daughter, Lord Dunsany
  88. Lud-in-the-Mist
  89. The Thing of It Is: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
  90. On Richard Dadd’s The Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke
  91. IX
  92. MAKE GOOD ART
  93. Make Good Art
  94. X
  95. THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS: REAL THINGS
  96. The View from the Cheap Seats
  97. A Wilderness of Mirrors
  98. The Dresden Dolls: Hallowe’en 2010
  99. Eight Views of Mount Fuji: Beloved Demons and Anthony Martignetti
  100. So Many Ways to Die in Syria Now: May 2014
  101. A Slip of the Keyboard: Terry Pratchett
  102. Credits
  103. Index
  104. About the Author
  105. Also by Neil Gaiman
  106. Copyright
  107. About the Publisher

Brave and the Bold, The, 264

“Breathing Method, The” (King), 133

Brèque, Jean-Daniel, 284

Brewer, E. Cobham, 501

Bride of Frankenstein (movie), 201–4

Bridges, Jeff, 468

Briggs, Katharine, 426

Brightfount Diaries, The (Aldiss), 170

British Fantasy Convention: (1983), 350–51; (1985), 374

British Fantasy Society (BFS), 144

British Film Institute Journal, 145

Brontë sisters, 473–74

Brooker, Faith, 146

Broome, John, 260

Brother Power the Geek (Simon), 279

Brunner, John, 171

Bug Jack Barron (Spinrad), 121

Bullock, Sandra, 468

“Burning Chrome” (Gibson), 398–99

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 29

Burroughs, William, 165, 193

Busiek, Kurt, 257–62

“Business as Usual, During Alterations” (Williams), 340

“But What Has That to Do with Bacchus? Eddie Campbell and Deadface,” 253–56

Byrne, Eugene, 147

Cabell, James Branch, 28, 30, 36, 121–22

Cale, John, 107

Cameron, James, 465

Cameron, Julia Margaret, 474

Campbell, Coco, 495

Campbell, Eddie, 106, 172, 253–56, 311

Campbell, Ramsey, 168, 350

Carell, Steve, 465

Carnegie Medal, 97, 103–4

Carpenter, John, 351

Carrie (King), 8, 85, 131–32, 136, 137

Carroll, Jonathan, 107

Carroll, Lewis, 68, 174

Carson, Dave, 350, 351

Carter, Angela, 425–26, 447

“Cask of Amontillado, The” (Poe), 320

“Catastrophe, A” (Wells), 334

Central Electricity Generating Board, 101, 501

Cerebus, 305

Chadbourn, Mark, 448

Chambers, Robert W., 350

Chapman, Georgina, 495–96

Charlie Hebdo, 73–76

Chesterton, G. K., 34, 36–38, 60, 83; Complete Father Brown Stories, 37–38, 344–46

Chevalier d’Eon, 473

Chicago Comics Convention (1996), “ashcan” tribute to Will Eisner, 282–85

Chicago Humanities Festival speech, 54–63

Children: love of reading, 7–10, 13; self-censorship of, 81–82, 85

Children’s books, 77–90

China, 41, 87

Christie, Agatha, 134

Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis), 33–35

Chu’s Day (Gaiman), 86–87

Cinema Macabre (Morris, ed.), 204

Cities, 154–55

City Limits, 145

City People Notebook (Eisner), 290–93

Claremont, Chris, 250

Clarke, Arthur C., 27, 171

Clarke, Harry, 321

Clarke, Susanna, 196, 438–42

Cleese, John, 115

Clifford, Lucy, 303, 429

Climbers (Harrison), 365

Clive, Colin, 202–3

Clooney, George, 466

Clute, John, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 102, 120, 172, 183

Cocteau, Jean, 424–25

“Coin-Operated Boy” (song), 481

Colbert Report, The (TV series), 16

Cold War, 179

Cole, Jack, 296

Colour of Magic, The (Pratchett), 100

Come Unto These Yellow Sands (radio play), 447

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, 342

Comic Book Retailers International (CBRI), 234–35

Comic Relief, 115

Comics, 57–58, 229–313; and films, 222–26, 241–42; illiteracy myth about, 7; vs. prose, 242–43

Comics and Sequential Art (Eisner), 287

Company of Wolves, The (movie), 425–26

Complete Father Brown Stories (Chesterton), 37–38, 344–46

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, 317–21

Composting, 55, 173–74

“Concerning Dreams and Nightmares: The Dream Stories of H. P. Lovecraft,” 347–52

“Cone, The” (Wells), 334

“Confessions: On Astro City and Kurt Busiek,” 257–62

Conjure Wife (Leiber), 166

Constable, John, 472–73

Contracts, 246–48

Contract with God, A (Eisner), 286–87, 291

Cook, Peter, 487

Copyright laws, 341–42

Coraline (Gaiman), 68, 77, 86, 109

Coraline (movie), 18, 463–69

Coraline (musical), 86

Coren, Alan, 151, 501

Cornelius, Jerry, 84

Costello, Elvis, 70–71

Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas), 184

“Country of the Blind, The” (Wells), 337–38

Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Wells), Introduction to, 329–39