Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Author: | Neil Gaiman |
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William Morrow & Co., 2015 Headline Publishing Group, 2015 |
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Book Type: | Collection |
Genre: | Fantasy |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Mythic Fiction (Fantasy) Magical Realism Contemporary Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things--which includes a never-before published American Gods story, "Black Dog," written exclusively for this volume.
In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013--as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection.
Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In Adventure Story--a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane--Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience A Calendar of Tales are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year--stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother's Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale The Case of Death and Honey. And Click-Clack the Rattlebag explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we're all alone in the darkness.
A sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Full of wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul from one of the most unique and popular literary artists of our day.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Neil Gaiman
- Making a Chair - (2011) - poem by Neil Gaiman
- A Lunar Labyrinth - (2013) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- The Thing About Cassandra - (2010) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- Down to a Sunless Sea - (2013) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains..." - (2010) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
- My Last Landlady - (2010) - poem by Neil Gaiman
- Adventure Story - (2012) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- Orange - (2008) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- A Calendar of Tales - (2013) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
- The Case of Death and Honey - (2011) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury - (2012) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- Jerusalem - (2007) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- Click-Clack the Rattlebag - (2012) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- An Invocation of Incuriosity - (2009) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- "And Weep, Like Alexander" - (2011) - shortfiction by Neil Gaiman
- Nothing O'Clock - (2013) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale - (2009) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- The Return of the Thin White Duke - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- Feminine Endings - (2008) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
- Observing the Formalities - (2009) - poem by Neil Gaiman
- The Sleeper and the Spindle - (2013) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
- Witch Work - (2012) - poem by Neil Gaiman
- In Relig Odhráin - (2011) - poem by Neil Gaiman
- Black Dog - novelette by Neil Gaiman
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