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Cursed – Anthology

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Cursed - AnthologyAll copyright 2020 except stated.

Standalones

Castle Cursed — Jane Yolen
As Red As Blood, As White As Snow — Christina Henry
Troll Bridge — Neil Gaiman – 1993
At That Age — Catriona Ward
Listen — Jen Williams
Henry and the Snakewood Box — M.R. Carey
Skin — James Brogden
Faith & Fred — Maura McHugh
The Black Fairy’s Curse — Karen Joy Fowler – 1997
Wendy, Darling — Christopher Golden – 2014
Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie — Charlie Jane Anders – 2011
Look Inside — Michael Marshall Smith – 2013
Little Red — Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple – 2009
New Wine — Angela Slatter
Haza and Ghani — Lilith Saintcrow
Hated — Christopher Fowler – 1995
The Merrie Dancers — Alison Littlewood
Again — Tim Lebbon
The Girl From The Hell — Margo Lanagan
Castle Waking — Jane Yolen

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Rogues — Anthology

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Rogues -- AnthologyAll copyright 2014.

Tough Times All Over — Joe Abercrombie
What Do You Do? — Gillian Flynn
The Inn of the Seven Blessings — Matt Hughes
Bent Twig — Joe R. Lansdale
Tawny Petticoats — Michael Swanwick
Provenance — David W. Ball
The Roaring Twenties — Carrie Vaughn
A Year and a Day in Old Theradane — Scott Lynch
Bad Brass — Bradley Denton
Heavy Metal — Cherie Priest
The Meaning of Love — Daniel Abraham
A Better Way to Die — Paul Cornell
Ill Seen in Tyre — Steven Saylor
A Cargo of Ivories — Garth Nix
Diamonds From Tequila — Walter Jon Williams
The Caravan to Nowhere — Phyllis Eisenstein
The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives — Lisa Tuttle
How the Marquis Got His Coat Back — Neil Gaiman
Now Showing — Connie Willis
The Lightning Tree — Patrick Rothfuss
The Rogue Prince, or, a King’s Brother — George R. R. Martin

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Angels and Visitations — Neil Gaiman

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Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Angels and Visitations, written by Neil Gaiman.

The Song of the Audience

1992 – Chivalry

1990 – Nicholas Was . . .

1990 – Babycakes

1993 – Troll Bridge

1989 – Vampire Sestina

1990 – Webs

1988 – Six to Six

1989 – A Prologue

1990 – Foreign Parts

1990 – Cold Colours

Luther’s Villanelle

The Mouse

1984 – The Case Of The Four And Twenty Blackbirds

1990 – Virus

1985 – Looking For The Girl

Post-Mortem on Our Love

Being an Experiment Upon Strictly Scientific Lines

1989 – We Can Get Them For You Wholesale

1992 – Murder Mysteries

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Fragile Things — Neil Gaiman

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Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Fragile Things, written by Neil Gaiman.

2003 – A Study in Emerald

2004 – The Fairy Reel

2002 – October in the Chair

2005 – The Hidden Chamber

2004 – Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire

1997 – The Flints of Memory Lane

2002 – Closing Time

2002 – Going Wodwo

2003 – Bitter Grounds

2001 – Other People

1999 – Keepsakes and Treasures

1995 – Good Boys Deserve Favors

1998 – The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch

2001 – Strange Little Girls

1998 – Harlequin Valentine

1999 – Locks

2004 – The Problem of Susan

2000 – Instructions

1998 – How Do You Think It Feels?

2002 – My Life

2008 – Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot

2002 – Feeders and Eaters

2002 – Diseasemaker’s Croup

1996 – In the End

1999 – Goliath

2002 – Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky

How to Talk to Girls at Parties

2006 – The Day the Saucers Came

2005 – Sunbird

2003 – Inventing Aladdin

2004 – The Monarch of the Glen

Neil’s Page

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Smoke and Mirrors — Neil Gaiman

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1997 – Reading The Entrails: A Rondel

The Wedding Present

1997 – The Price

1995 – Don’t Ask Jack

1996 – The Goldfish Pool And Other Stories

1996 – Eaten

1995 – The White Road

1995 – Queen Of Knives

Changes

1997 – The Daughter Of Owls

1998 – Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar

1990 – Virus

1985 – Looking For The Girl

1994 – Only The End Of The World Again

Bay Wolf

1998 – Fifteen Painted Cards From A Vampire Tarot

1989 – We Can Get Them For You Wholesale

1994 – One Life, Furnished In Early Moorcock

1996 – The Sweeper Of Dreams

1993 – Mouse

1995 – The Sea Change

1998 – How Do You Think It Feels

When We Went To See The End Of The World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11 1/4

Desert Wind

1998 – Tastings

1992 – Murder Mysteries

1995 – Snow, Glass, Apples

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Trigger Warning — Neil Gaiman

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Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Trigger Warning, written by Neil Gaiman.

2011 – Making A Chair

2013 – A Lunar Labyrinth

2010 – The Thing About Cassandra

2013 – Down To A Sunless Sea

2010 – The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains…

2010 – My Last Landlady

2012 – Adventure Story

2008 – Orange

2013 – A Calendar Of Tales

2011 – The Case Of Death And Honey

2012 – The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury

2007 – Jerusalem

2013 – Click-Clack The Rattlebag

2009 – An Invocation Of Incuriosity

2013 – And Weep, Like Alexander

2013 – Nothing O’Clock

2009 – Diamonds And Pearls: A Fairy Tale

2004 – The Return Of The Thin White Duke

2007 – Feminine Endings

2009 – Observing The Formalities

2013 – The Sleeper And The Spindle

2012 – Witch Work

2011 – In Relig Odhráin

Black Dog

The third book in the American Gods series.

Another good, little novella, very much in the similar to The Monarch of the Glen, with Shadow getting himself caught up in things uncanny and folklore-ish once again.

Yes folks, it’s just more of that really good Neil Gaiman writing.

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Songs of Love and Death — Anthology

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Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Songs of Love & Death, written by Various.

Love Hurts — Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)
The Marrying Maid — Jo Beverley
Rooftops — Carrie Vaughn
Hurt Me — M.L.N. Hanover
Demon Lover — Cecelia Holland
The Wayfarer’s Advice — Melinda M. Snodgrass (Imperials)
Blue Boots — Robin Hobb
The Thing About Cassandra — Neil Gaiman
After the Blood — Marjorie M. Liu
You and You Alone — Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel’s Legacy)
His Wolf — Lisa Tuttle
Courting Trouble — Linnea Sinclair
The Demon Dancer — Mary Jo Putney
Under/Above the Water — Tanith Lee
Kashkia — Peter S. Beagle
Man in the Mirror — Yasmine Galenorn
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows — Diana Gabaldon (Outlander)

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The Monarch of the Glen — Neil Gaiman

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Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, The Monarch of the Glen, written by Neil Gaiman.

An American Gods spin off novella which has Shadow getting mixed up in an ageless fight between Scottish monsters and those who want to keep them in their place.

All the usual Neil Gaiman excellence.

Available as a stand alone novella, as part of the Fragile Things collection and also included in the Kindle edition of American Gods.

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American Gods — Neil Gaiman

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Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, American Gods, written by Neil Gaiman.

I had a quick look at the TV show and very quickly decided that i wanted to read the book instead, and i’m rather glad i did.   I absolutely, totally, enjoyed Stardust — which was the only one of Neil’s books i’d read before — so i was hoping i was in for another super reading treat with this.

So, suffice it to say, i still have no idea what the TV show was like, and having read the book i really have no interest because the book is so good i just don’t want to spoil the memory of a great story.   But i’ll most certainly be reading more of Neil’s books though.

This book really has just about everything going on in it.   There’s a dark satirical edge to it, a murder mystery thing, a love story, folklore, lots of action, lots of gods and goddesses and other mythical creatures, and many other things besides.   How Neil managed to tie it all up into one complete story is outstanding writing to say the least.

What struck me most about it was the dark satirical edge that i found within it.   How so many modern countries are turning their backs upon the old ways and enslaving themselves to modern ideas and ideologies.   The continuous tension between those that would hold us back and those who would drive us forward, and the battles that happen when one or both push it too far.   Yes, we all see it played out in the political realm every day, conservatives v modernisers, but underlying all of that are the beliefs and ideals of everyone in society and who gets to control and dictate them.

And in the middle of it all is our protagonist, Shadow.   What a character.   He’s thrown into this world of gods and goddesses as each side attempts to attract him to their school of thought.   Just like the political classes, the corporatocracy and religions as they all attempt to enslave us into their ideologies and use us in their battles for ultimate power.

So yeah, super duper read.   It’s a big, big book but well worth the time.

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