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
Tolkien, Christopher, 36
Tolkien, J.R.R., xvi, 35–37, 38, 83, 97, 104, 423; The Lord of the Rings, xvi, 35–37, 440–41
“Tolkien’s Magic Ring” (Beagle), xv–xvi, 35–36
Torchia, Joseph, 258
To Venus and Back (tour book), 391–93
Tragedy, 253–55
Transformer (album), 398, 399, 405, 411
Trevino, Rose, 19
Trillion Year Spree (Aldiss), 169
Trouble on Triton (Delany), 188
Troughton, Patrick, 218–19
Truffaut, Francois, 180
“Truth About Pyecraft, The” (Wells), 337
Tulip mania, 230–32, 294
“Twisting” (song), 395
“Under the Knife” (Wells), 335
Under the Pink (tour book), 389–90
University of the Arts Commencement Speech (2012), 451–59
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 491–97
Up (movie), 464, 466
“Usher II” (Bradbury), 317–18
Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (Adams), 115
Vance, Jack, 30, 364
Vaughn, Matthew, 212–13, 428
Velvet Underground, 143, 398–99, 411
Verne, Jules, 329
Vess, Charles, 243, 428, 430–32
Vess, Karen, 432
V for Vendetta (movie), 225
Victorians, 7, 98, 325
Victor/Victoria (musical), 139
“View from the Cheap Seats, The,” 463–69
Viglione, Brian, 478–82
Violent Cases (Gaiman and McKean), 106–7
Viriconium (Harrison), Introduction to, 361–66
Voice of the Fire (Moore), Introduction to, 377–79
Von Buhler, Cynthia, 417, 418
Vonnegut, Kurt, 139
Votan (James), 356–60
Votan and Other Novels (James), Introduction to, 356–60
Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The (Lewis), 33–34
Wagner, Karl Edward, 350, 351
“Waiting for the Man: Lou Reed,” 402–14
“Walk on the Wild Side” (song), 399–400
Wallace, Edgar, 37, 83
Wandrei, Donald, 349
Ware, Chris, 296
War Games, The (TV series), 218–19
Warhol, Andy, 399, 400
“War Pigs” (song), 482
Warrior (magazine), 225
Watchmen (movie), 222, 258, 289
Webley, Jason, 415–18, 480
Webster, John, 319
Webster, Miss, 118–19, 122
Wein, Len, 265
Weinstein, Harvey, 467, 495
Weird Tales, 348
Weller, Mr., 40
Welles, Orson, 222, 223
Wellman, Manly Wade, 348
Wells, H. G., 170, 329–39
“We Want a Rock” (song), 395–96
W.H. Smith Bookshop, 26
Whale, James, 204
“What’s Good” (song), 405, 409–10
“What the [Very Bad Swearword] Is a Children’s Book, Anyway?”, 77–90
Wheatley, Dennis, 27, 37, 83
“When the World Screamed” (Doyle), 333
“Whistling in the Dark” (song), 396
White, James, 193
Whitgift (school), 77–78
Who Killed Amanda Palmer (album), 419–20, 487–88
“Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming,” 5–15
“Wild Asses of the Devil, The” (Wells), 338
Wild Cards (Martin, ed.), 258
Wilde, Oscar, 325
“Wilderness of Mirrors, A,” 470–76
Wilhelm, Kate, 193
Wilkins’ Tooth (Jones), 373–74
Will Eisner’s New York: Life in the Big City, Introduction to, 290–93
William (Crompton), 102
Williams, Alan D., 133
Williams, Linda, Hard Core, 43–44
Williams, Ralph, 340
Wilmington Bookshop, 28–29
Wilson, Colin, 351
Windsor-Smith, Barry, 444
Wind Through the Keyhole, The (King), 134, 137
“Winter Flies, The” (Leiber), 165–66
“Witch’s Headstone, The” (Gaiman), 22–23
Wodehouse, P. G., 103
Wolfe, Gene, 72, 93, 193, 350; “How to Read Gene Wolfe,” 111–13
Wolves in the Walls, The (Gaiman and McKean), 109–10
“Women and Men” (song), 396
Woodlawn, Holly, 399–400
World Fantasy Award (1991), 431–32
World Fantasy Convention program book (2002), 106–10
World Horror Convention program book (2002), 111–13