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
Moore, Alan, 222, 233, 248, 250, 295–96, 303, 377–79; From Hell, 248, 255, 377; Supreme, 259; V for Vendetta, 224–25; Voice of the Fire, 377–79
Morris, Mark, 204
Morrison, Grant, 303
Morritt, Charles, 381
Mosnier, Jean-Laurent, 473
“Moth, The” (Wells), 334
Moth, The: This Is a True Story, Introduction for, 383–85
Motion of Light in Water, The (Delany), 189
Movies, 201–16; “A View from the Cheap Seats,” 463–69; and comics, 222–26, 241–42
Mr. Punch (Gaiman and McKean), 107
Mugnier, Arthur, 57
Music, 389–420; copyright laws, 341–42
Musicals compared with pornographic films, 43–44
Muth, Jon, 243
MythCon 35 Guest of Honor Speech (2004), 33–38
Myths, 54–63
Myths of the Norsemen, 54
Nancarrow, Conlon, 107
Napoleon of Notting Hill, The (Chesterton), 37–38
Napster, 341–42
National Book Foundation, 134
National Portrait Gallery, 471–75
“Nature of the Infection, The: Some Thoughts on Doctor Who,” 217–21
Nebula Awards speech (2005), 192–97
Negotiations, 247–48
Neuromancer (Gibson), 187
Neverwhere (Gaiman), 67, 428
Neverwhere (TV series), 220, 242
“New Accelerator, The” (Wells), 337
New Annotated Dracula (Stoker), Introduction to, 323–26
Newbery Medal Speech (2009), 16–25
Newman, Kim, 144–49, 220, 323
New Statesman, 76
Newton, Isaac, 303
New Wave: definition of, 120
New Worlds (magazine), 120, 171
New Yorker (magazine), 18, 120, 310
New York’s Village Halloween Parade, 51
Nicholls, Peter, 376; Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 102, 120, 172, 183
Nightmare Movies (Newman), 145
Night Watch (Pratchett), 104
1984 (Orwell), 187
Niven, Larry, 258
“Nobody’s Guide to the Oscars, A,” 463–69
“No Money Down” (song), 410
Non-Stop (Aldiss), 172–73
Norse sagas, 357–59
Not for All the Gold in Ireland (James), 357, 359–60
Notkin, Geoff, 141–43, 284
Notkin, Sam, 141, 142
Nova (Delany), 30, 190
Ocean at the End of the Lane, The (Gaiman), 88–89, 446–47
“Of Time, and Gully Foyle: Alfred Bester and The Stars My Destination,” 183–86
Of Worlds Beyond (Eshbach, ed.), 261
Oliver, Edgar, 383–84
“Once Upon a Time,” 423–29
“On Dave McKean,” 106–10
“On The 13 Clocks by James Thurber,” 353–55
“On Viriconium: Some Notes Toward an Introduction,” 361–66
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 12
Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories, The (Newman), Introduction to, 144–49
Original Plays (Gilbert), 35
Orpheus, 188
Orwell, George, 183, 187
Oscars, 463–69
Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (comic), 75
Outsider and Others, The (Lovecraft), 349
“Pace That Kills, The” (Keith Roberts writing as Alistair Bevan), 82
Palmer, Amanda, 86, 454; and Anthony Martignetti, 483–88; The Dresden Dolls, 477–83; Evelyn Evelyn, 415–18, 480; Who Killed Amanda Palmer (album), 419–20, 487–88
Pan Book of Horror Stories, 27, 83
Pan Books, 369
Pangborn, Edgar, 47
“Particle Man” (song), 395
Pastel City, The (Harrison), 361–62, 363–64
“Patricia’s Profession” (Newman), 144–45
Peace (Wolfe), 112
Peace and Love Corporation, 147–48
Peak, Bob, 251
“Pedestrian, The” (Bradbury), 179–80
PEN Awards, 73–76
Penn, Sean, 468
PEN World Voices Festival (2007), 383
“Perfect Day” (song), 405–6
Perkins, Geoffrey, 115
Perrault, Charles, 59, 424
Perret, Patti, 94
Pertwee, Jon, 219
Photographs of authors, 93–94
“Pickman’s Model” (Lovecraft), 352
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 428
“Plattner Story, The” (Wells), 335