They are all very unique and individual with a title that could be applied to a number of different short story books instead of this one. It all feels like a desperate attempt to release a collection of unrelated stories into the world. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.” There are so many fragile things, after all. “It seemed like a fine title for a book of short stories. Here’s what the introduction says about Fragile Things: Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky.

Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot.The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch.shortstory (variant of Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire).Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire.By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time. Such marvelous creations and more, including a short story set in the world of The Matrix and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fiction, can be found in this collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his entertaining (and dark) sense of humor. The members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they've eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird. Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams and nightmares.

In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters.Īnother short story is set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder. This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0060515236 (ISBN13: 9780060515232).įragile Things is Neil Gaiman's second collection of short fiction.Ī mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it.

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman