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A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.
Larkken: The short stories contained in each anthology have a similar feel, and both, to some degree, play with traditional fairy tale themes. Clarke's novel benefits from reading her debut novel, as her collection is placed in the same world.
MyriadBooks: For, "Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded."
Wie das bei Kurzgeschichten so ist... einige sind wirklich toll, einige so gar nicht. Alles in allem aber eine gelungene Mischung, vor allem die längeren Geschichten haben mit gut gefallen. ( )
Gaiman never misses and I enjoyed this collection, especially the "fantasy" writer character living in gothic horror land that writes about accountants, desk jobs, etc. Also a nice bonus American Gods novella that I didn't know existed. ( )
For Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison, and the late Robert Sheckley, masters of the craft
First words
"I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral dept." The words turned up in a dream and I wrote them down upon waking, uncertain what they meant or to whom they applied.
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Last words
Deep rumbles of thunder accompanied Shadow on his journey south: the storm grumbled, the wind howled, and the lightning made huge shadows across the sky, and in their company Shadow began to feel less alone.
A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.
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Collects these stories "A Study in Emerald" "The Fairy Reel" "October in the Chair" "The Hidden Chamber" "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" "The Flints of Memory Lane" "Closing Time" "Going Wodwo" "Bitter Grounds" "Other People" "Keepsakes and Treasures" "Good Boys Deserve Favors" "The Facts in the Case of the Disappearance of Miss Finch" "Strange Little Girls" "Harlequin Valentine" "Locks" "The Problem of Susan" "Instructions" "How Do You Think It Feels?" "My Life" "Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot" "Feeders and Eaters" "Diseasemaker's Croup" "In the End" "Goliath" "Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Lousville, Kentucky" "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" "The Day the Saucers Came" "Sunbird" "Inventing Aladdin" "The Monarch of the Glen"