Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Gaiman's third collection of short fiction is, as usual, a delight. There's no over-arching theme just a collection of great stories, oddments and poetry from the last six or seven years. Gaiman has been doing this a long time now and is a master storyteller, so if you've read him before, you'll know what to expect. If you haven't, a collection like this is a great place to dip your toe in the water.

So what do we have? Gaiman has always liked to play with form, twisting well known tropes to breathe fresh life into old stories. He does that here with The Sleeper and The Spindle, which posits the question “what if the story of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty happened at the same time....?”

Elsewhere there are tributes to the works of Ray Bradbury and Jack Vance, A Calendar of Tales wher Gaiman wrote a story for each month of the year inspired by tweets, and best of all a new American Gods story featuring Shadow (if you haven't read American Gods go order it now, stop reading this and come back when you have!).

Recommended.