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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

Krazy Kat (Herriman), 303

Krigstein, Bernie, 296

Kryptonite Kid, The, 258, 259–60

Kupferberg, Tuli, 165

Kurtzman, Harvey, 142, 300–301

La Belle et la Bête (movie), 424–25

Labyrinth (movie), 205, 206, 208

Lafferty, R. A., 28, 30, 165, 168

Lanchester, Elsa, 201–4

Landau, Yair, 213

Larkin, Philip, 481–82

Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby), 403

Laumer, Keith, 193

Layer Cake (movie), 212–13

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (movie), 223, 224

Lee, Stan, 260, 274

Legendary Pink Dots, 479

Le Guin, Ursula K., xvi, 83

Leiber, Fritz, 165–68, 190, 348

Lemon, Denis, 75–76

L’Engle, Madeleine, 20

Levitz, Paul, 247

Lewis, C.S., 9, 27, 33–35, 38, 68, 81, 97

Lewis, Matthew “Monk,” 265

Lexton, Maria, 156

Librarians, 9–10, 17–18, 24, 297

Libraries, 5–6, 9–15, 16–18

Liefeld, Rob, 250, 251

Life, the Universe and Everything (Adams), 368

“Ligeia” (Poe), 318, 321

Light (Harrison), 365

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis), 33–34

Literacy, 6–7, 11–12, 15

Little Nemo (McCay), 303

Lloyd, David, 225

Lloyd, John, 115, 368

Loaded (album), 398

Locus, 41

Look Magazine, “Sundance Diary,” 212–16

“Lord of the Dynamos, The” (Wells), 333–34

Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), xvi, 35–37, 440–41

“Lou Reed, in Memoriam: ‘The Soundtrack to My Life’”, 397–414

Lovecraft, H. P., xvi, 168, 347–52

“Lucky Ball and Chain” (song), 395

Lud-in-the-Mist (Mirrlees), 425, 426, 436–37, 440

Lugosi, Bela, 323

Lumley, Brian, 350

Lunatic Heroes (Martignetti), 488, 489

McAdams, Rachel, 465, 467, 469

McCay, Winsor, 296, 303

McCloud, Scott, 260, 293, 310

MacDonald, John D., 132, 139

McIntosh, J. T., 82

Mackay, Charles, 229–32

McKay, Nellie, 478

McKean, Clare, 107, 108

McKean, Dave, 243, 251; MirrorMask (movie), 205–16, 224, 226; “On Dave McKean,” 106–10

Madden, Matt, 310

“Made in USA” (McIntosh), 82

Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 437

Magic (magicians), 380–82

Magic and Loss (album), 404, 411, 413

Mahurin, Matt, 410

Major, John, 121

“Make Good Art,” 451–59

Mandeville, John, 172

Manhattan, 154–55

“Man Who Could Work Miracles, The” (Wells), 336

“Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore, The” (Ellison), 123–24

Man Who Was Thursday, The (Chesterton), 37–38, 345

Marder, Larry, 239

Marquee Club (London), 157

Martian Chronicles, The (Bradbury), 27, 181

Martignetti, Anthony, 483–90

Martignetti, Laura, 485, 488–89

Martin, George R. R., 258

Martin, J. P., 17, 83

Martin, Steve, 466

Marvell, Andrew, 169

“Masque of the Red Death, The” (Poe), 318, 320

Maus (Spiegelman), 222, 289, 295

Mayer, Robert, Superfolks, 258

McCauley, Paul, Eye of the Tyger, 217–21

Mehta, Sonny, 369, 371

Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick, 259, 267–68

Merril, Judith, 165

Metal Machine Music (album), 399, 406

Meteorites, 142–43

Milford Writers’ Workshop, 95

Milholland, Randy, 306

Miller, Frank, 222, 226, 233, 250, 296

“Minimum Wage” (song), 396

Mirrlees, Hope, Lud-in-the-Mist, 425, 426, 436–37, 440

MirrorMask (movie), 205–16, 224, 226; Sundance diary, 212–16

MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture, 205–11

Misery (King), 134

Mistakes, 304–5, 455

Mistrial (album), 402

Mitchell, Margaret, 134; Gone with the Wind, 46–47

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Herman), 259, 267–68

Monk, The (Lewis), 265

Monstrous Regiment (Pratchett), 104

Moorcock, Michael, 83, 84, 171, 363–64; A Cure for Cancer, 121; Stormbringer, 165