Yes, the book was published after the short story collection was out.but it's only a year difference so I'm working on the assumption that Gaiman knew he was going to publish a whole other book and still put a chapter of it in this one. this feels weird to read a section from another book. This is a chapter from The Graveyard Book. The Witch's Headstone: THIS DOES NOT COUNT. Sunbird: What should you eat if you already ate everything? At first I felt sympathy for the main characters but quickly I realized that they were all terrible people to begin with.
In his efforts to chat up girls, he mistakenly wanders into an alien party and has no idea that she plans to do dirty things to him. How to Talk to Girls at Parties: Unexpectedly sexual - the dirty thoughts of a pubescent boy.but other than that it was a little fun to see what was happening to the oblivious narrator. Still enjoyed the story - one brave cat defends his family from the Devil himself. The Price: THIS DOES NOT COUNT: republished from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions. A knight comes looking for it and finds more than he bargained for. Despite that, this was fun! An old lady buys the Holy Grail at a resale shop. This either should've been a novel or cut.Ĭhivalry: THIS DOES NOT COUNT: republished from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions.
October in the Chair: Highly fanciful meeting of the twelve months. Started to lose interest halfway through. How to Sell the Ponti Bridge: Extremely long-winded con - the Ponti Bridge is "sold" and the main characters make off like bandits. (As if I needed another reason to never buy one) Includes a menacing Jack-in-the-Box passed down through the generations. Un-ironically, the troll acts like a dick.ĭon't Ask Jack: THIS DOES NOT COUNT: this is republished from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions. Undue time is used to describe the troll's flaccid genitalia. Troll Bridge: THIS DOES NOT COUNT: this is republished from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions. Starring all sorts of classic fairy-tale characters as they try to figure out what happened to Humpty Dumpty. The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds: Detective story set in a storybook land. I get that short stories are often published on their own before becoming part of anthology, but what I'm referring to is that the short stories are already in a short-story book OR they are fully published as their own book by Gaiman. **Additional warning** Several of these stories appear elsewhere. There are no rainbows and there are no unicorns.and because it's Gaiman, it's weirdly sexual (though, not hardcore, at least). Oh Good Lord, do not buy this one for your kidsĭespite the cutesy title, this is soooooo not appropriate for anyone under preteens.
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