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
Evelyn Evelyn: A Tragic Tale in Two Tomes (Palmer and Webley), Afterword to, 415–18
Evenings with Neil Gaiman, 342
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay), 229–32
Eye of the Tyger (McCauley), Introduction to, 217–21
Faces of Fantasy, The (Perret), 94
Fagin, Helen, 46–47
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 318; Introduction to, 177–82
Fahrenheit 451 (movie), 180
Failures, 304–5, 453–54
Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke, The (Chadbourn), 448
Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke, The (Dadd), 425, 443–48
Fairy tales, 59–62, 423–29; compared with romance books, 45–46
Family albums, 471–76
Father Brown, 37–38, 344–46
Fellowship of the Ring, The (Tolkien), 35–36
Female storylines, 67–68
Fey, Tina, 466
Finger, Bob, 260
Fire and Hemlock (Jones), 97
“Fireman, The” (Bradbury), 180
Fisher, Jules, 380, 382
Fleming, Ian, 27
Fletcher, Jo, 144
Flood (album), liner notes, 394–96
Flying Inn, The (Chesterton), 38
Focus Features, 464–65
Forbidden Planet, 31, 195–96
Forrest, David, 84
Fortunately, the Milk (Gaiman), 87–88
“Four Bookshops,” 26–32
Fourth World, 275–76
Fox, Gardner, 260
Frankenstein (Shelley), 169
Fraser, George MacDonald, 357
Freedom and libraries, 10
Freelancer life, 456–57
Free speech, 3–4, 74–75
“Fritz Leiber: The Short Stories,” 165–68
From Hell (Moore), 248, 255, 377
“From the Days of Future Past: The Country of the Blind and Other Stories, by H. G. Wells,” 329–39
Fry, Stephen, 224
Gaimain, David, 20–21, 119, 142, 463
Gaiman, Holly, 8, 85, 123, 142, 399–400, 424–25
Gaiman, Maddy, 98, 201–2, 305, 424–25
Gaiman, Michael, xvi, 16, 23
Galvin, Cathy, 129
“Garden, The” (Marvell), 169
“Gardener, The” (Kipling), 328
Gardening, 40, 55
Garland, Lorraine, 18–19
Garner, Alan, 83
Geidt, Jeremy, 487
Gender and books, 67–72
Genre fiction, 41–43, 47–48
“Geoff Notkin: Meteorite Man,” 141–43
Ghastly Beyond Belief (Newman and Gaiman, eds.), 145–46, 196
“Ghosts in the Machines: Some Hallowe’en Thoughts,” 49–53
Ghost stories, 50–53
Gibbons, Dave, 222, 289
Gibbs, A. Hamilton, 122
Gibson, William, 183; “Burning Chrome,” 398–99; Neuromancer, 187
“Gift, The” (song), 398
Gilbert, W. S., 35
Gilliam, Terry, 207, 208, 301
GK’s Weekly, 346
Golden Globes, 465–66, 467
Goldman, William, 426
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 46–47
“Gonna Roll the Bones” (Leiber), 190
“Good Comics and Tulips: A Speech,” 229–37
Good Omens (Pratchett and Gaiman), 102–3, 457, 498–99, 500
Google, 10, 41, 73, 359
Goosebumps (Stine), 85
Gotti, John, 131
Grandenetti, Jerry, 279
Gravett, Paul, 106–7
Graveyard Book, The (Gaiman), 16, 18, 19–20, 22–24
Graveyards, 22–23
Gray, Nicholas Stuart, 17
Great Cow Race, The (Smith), 267, 268, 273
Greenland, Colin, 438–39, 441–42
Green Mile, The (King), 138
Gregory, Marc, 405–6
Grimm Brothers, 268, 423–24
Grisham, John, 121
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 68
Gumshoe (Thompson), 150–53
Gursky, Steve, 234
“Half Jack” (song), 481–82
Hallowe’en, 49–53, 478–79
Happiest Days of Your Life, The (play), 80–81
Hard Candy (movie), 214
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the “Frenzy of the Visible” (Williams), 43–44
Harris, Neil Patrick, 466
Harrison, Jane Ellen, 425
Harrison, M. John, 361–66
“Harry’s Circumcision” (song), 409
Hartnell, William, 219, 220
Harvey Awards Keynote Speech (2004), 300–307
Harvey Comics, 287
Havel, Václav, 403, 410, 413, 414
“Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?” (song), 415