Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“My Life” © 2002 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Sock Monkeys: 200 out of 1,863.

“Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot” © 1998 by Neil Gaiman. First published in The Art of the Vampire.

“Feeders and Eaters” © 1990 by Neil Gaiman. First published as a comic book in Revolver Horror Special. First published in this form in Keep Out the Night (2002).

“Diseasemaker’s Croup” © 2002 by Neil Gaiman. First published in The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric Discredited Diseases.

“In the End” © 1996 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Strange Kaddish.

“Goliath” by Neil Gaiman. Copyright © 1999 by Warner Bros. Studios, a division of Time Warner. First published online at www.whatisthematrix.com. Based on concepts by Larry and Andy Wachowski. Inspired by the motion picture The Matrix, written by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.

“Pages Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky” © 2002 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Tori Amos’s Scarlet’s Walk tour book.

“How to Talk to Girls at Parties” © 2006. First publication.

“The Day the Saucers Came” © 2006. First published in the eZine SpiderWords 1, no. 2 (www.spiderwords.com).

“Sunbird” © 2005 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren’t as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cell-phones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn’t Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out.

“Inventing Aladdin” © by Neil Gaiman. First published in Swan Sister.

“The Monarch of the Glen” © 2004 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Legends II.

Frontispiece illustration: A panel from the comic strip “Little Nemo in Slumberland” by Winsor McCay, the New York Herald, September 29, 1907.

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Microsoft Reader October 2006 ISBN 0-06-120722-5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gaiman, Neil.

Fragile things: short fictions and wonders / Neil Gaiman.-1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-051522-5

ISBN-10: 0-06-051522-8

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