“Curious Wine: Tori Amos II” copyright © 1999 by Neil Gaiman. First published in the program book for Tori Amos’s To Venus and Back tour.
“Flood: Twenty Fifth Anniversary Edition, They Might Be Giants” copyright © 2015 by Neil Gaiman. First published as the liner notes to the 2015 reissue of Flood.
“Lou Reed, in Memoriam: ‘The Soundtrack to My Life’” copyright © 2013 by Neil Gaiman. First published in the Guardian.
“Waiting for the Man: Lou Reed” copyright © 1992 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Time Out.
“Afterword Afterword: Evelyn Evelyn” copyright © 2011 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Evelyn Evelyn: A Tragic Tale in Two Tomes.
“Who Killed Amanda Palmer” copyright © 2008 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Who Killed Amanda Palmer.
“Once Upon a Time” copyright © 2007 by Neil Gaiman. First published in the Guardian.
“Several Things About Charles Vess” copyright © 1998 by Neil Gaiman. First published in the TropiCon XVII Book.
“The King of Elfland’s Daughter, Lord Dunsany” copyright © 1999 by Neil Gaiman. First published in The King of Elfland’s Daughter.
“Lud-in-the-Mist” copyright © 1999 by Neil Gaiman. First published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
“The Thing of It Is: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” copyright © 2009 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
“On Richard Dadd’s The Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke” copyright © 2013 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Intelligent Life magazine.
“Make Good Art” copyright © 2012 by Neil Gaiman. First published on UArts.edu.
“The View from the Cheap Seats” copyright © 2010 by Neil Gaiman. First published in the Guardian.
“A Wilderness of Mirrors” copyright © 2015 by Neil Gaiman. First published in the BP Portrait Award 2015 catalogue.
“The Dresden Dolls: Hallowe’en 2010” copyright © 2010 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Spin magazine.
“Eight Views of Mount Fuji: Beloved Demons and Anthony Martignetti” copyright © 2013 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Beloved Demons: Confessions of an Unquiet Mind.
“So Many Ways to Die in Syria Now: 2014” copyright © 2014 by Neil Gaiman. First published in the Guardian.
“A Slip of the Keyboard: Terry Pratchett” copyright © 2014 by Neil Gaiman. First published in A Slip of the Keyboard.
Index
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Abel, Jessica, 310
Academy Awards (Oscars), 463–69
Acker, Kathy, 188
Adams, Douglas, 11, 103, 114–16, 367–72; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 114–15, 368, 370–72; “Remembering Douglas Adams,” 114–16; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, 367–72
Adams, Neal, 264–65
Addams, Charles, 51
“Afterword Afterword: Evelyn Evelyn,” 415–18
Agnew, Spiro, 121, 122
Aladdin Sane (album), 475
Aldiss, Brian, 169–76, 194, 195; Billion Year Spree, 169, 191; Hothouse, 169–76
Alex Award, 85
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators (Arthur), 17
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 68
“All Books Have Genders,” 67–72
Allen, Woody, 269
Allred, Michael, 279
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The (Pratchett and Briggs), 103–4
America, 64–66
American Gods (Gaiman), 62, 64–65, 68–72, 77, 85, 193, 357–58
American Library Association, 297
Amis, Martin, 403, 405
Amos, Tori, 389–93
Anderson, Brent, 261
Anderson, Poul, 193
Andrews, Julie, 139
And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game (Forrest), 27, 84
Angry Candy (Ellison), 123
Anno Dracula (Newman), 323
“Apt Pupil” (King), 133
Archer’s Goon (Jones), 97
Ardingly College (school), 26-27
“Argonauts of the Air, The” (Wells), 334–35
Aristocrats, The (movie), 215, 216
Arkham House, 349
Art, 451–59
Art and Artifice: And Other Essays on Illusion (Steinmeyer), Introduction to, 380–82
Asimov, Isaac, 27, 196
Askwith, Mark, 267, 268–69
Aston House (school), 78–79
Astounding Science Fiction, 340–41, 343
Astro City: Confession (Busiek), Introduction to, 257–62
Austin, Alan, 282–84
Author photographs, 93–94
Bacchae, The (Euripides), 254
Bacchus, 253–55
Bag of Bones (King), 134
Baker, Tom, 219
Baker Street Irregulars, 325
Balcombe, Florence, 325
Baldwin, Alec, 466
Ballard, J. G., 121, 165, 171
Banks, John, 28–29, 30
Barker, Clive, 148
Barks, Carl, 271
Barry, Lynda, 312
Batman (movie), 222
Batman: Cover to Cover, 263–66
Baynes, Pauline, 34, 35
Beagle, Peter S., xv–xvi, 35–36
Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, The (Ellison), Foreword to, 117–24
Bechdel, Alison, 73
“Bells, The” (song), 406, 408
Beloved Demons (Martignetti), Introduction to, 483–90
Berger, Karen, 280
Berlin (album), 398, 400
Best American Comics 2010, Introduction to, 308–13
Bester, Alfred, 183–88
Best of the Spirit, The (Eisner), Introduction to, 286–89
Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics of Lou Reed, 403–4, 407, 410–12
Biard, Gérard, 76
Bigelow, Kathryn, 468
Big Time, The (Leiber), 167
Billion Year Spree (Aldiss), 169, 191
“Birdhouse in Your Soul” (song), 394
Birkin, Charles, 82
Black Orchid (Gaiman and McKean), 107
Blair, Tony, 225
Blish, James, 170
Bloch, Robert, 348
Bloody Chamber, The (Carter), 425
“Blue Cross, The” (Chesterton), 344–45
Blyberg, Will, 261
Blyton, Enid, 7
“Body, The” (King), 133
Bogart, Humphrey, 100
Bolland, Brian, 233
Bone (Smith), 267–73, 305
“Bone: An Introduction, and Some Subsequent Thoughts,” 267–73
Bookshops, 26–32, 83–84
Borglum, Gutzon, 118, 122
Bowie, David, 398, 475
Boy Commandos, 279–80
Bradbury, Ray, 47, 49, 83, 177–82, 339; Fahrenheit 451, 177–82, 318; The Martian Chronicles, 27, 181; The Silver Locusts, 27, 181; “Usher II,” 317–18
Brave and the Bold, The, 264
“Breathing Method, The” (King), 133
Brèque, Jean-Daniel, 284
Brewer, E. Cobham, 501
Bride of Frankenstein (movie), 201–4
Bridges, Jeff, 468
Briggs, Katharine, 426
Brightfount Diaries, The (Aldiss), 170
British Fantasy Convention: (1983), 350–51; (1985), 374
British Fantasy Society (BFS), 144
British Film Institute Journal, 145
Brontë sisters, 473–74
Brooker, Faith, 146
Broome, John, 260
Brother Power the Geek (Simon), 279
Brunner, John, 171
Bug Jack Barron (Spinrad), 121
Bullock, Sandra, 468
“Burning Chro
me” (Gibson), 398–99
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 29
Burroughs, William, 165, 193
Busiek, Kurt, 257–62
“Business as Usual, During Alterations” (Williams), 340
“But What Has That to Do with Bacchus? Eddie Campbell and Deadface,” 253–56
Byrne, Eugene, 147
Cabell, James Branch, 28, 30, 36, 121–22
Cale, John, 107
Cameron, James, 465
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 474
Campbell, Coco, 495
Campbell, Eddie, 106, 172, 253–56, 311
Campbell, Ramsey, 168, 350
Carell, Steve, 465
Carnegie Medal, 97, 103–4
Carpenter, John, 351
Carrie (King), 8, 85, 131–32, 136, 137
Carroll, Jonathan, 107
Carroll, Lewis, 68, 174
Carson, Dave, 350, 351
Carter, Angela, 425–26, 447
“Cask of Amontillado, The” (Poe), 320
“Catastrophe, A” (Wells), 334
Central Electricity Generating Board, 101, 501
Cerebus, 305
Chadbourn, Mark, 448
Chambers, Robert W., 350
Chapman, Georgina, 495–96
Charlie Hebdo, 73–76
Chesterton, G. K., 34, 36–38, 60, 83; Complete Father Brown Stories, 37–38, 344–46
Chevalier d’Eon, 473
Chicago Comics Convention (1996), “ashcan” tribute to Will Eisner, 282–85
Chicago Humanities Festival speech, 54–63
Children: love of reading, 7–10, 13; self-censorship of, 81–82, 85
Children’s books, 77–90
China, 41, 87
Christie, Agatha, 134
Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis), 33–35
Chu’s Day (Gaiman), 86–87
Cinema Macabre (Morris, ed.), 204
Cities, 154–55
City Limits, 145
City People Notebook (Eisner), 290–93
Claremont, Chris, 250
Clarke, Arthur C., 27, 171
Clarke, Harry, 321
Clarke, Susanna, 196, 438–42
Cleese, John, 115
Clifford, Lucy, 303, 429
Climbers (Harrison), 365
Clive, Colin, 202–3
Clooney, George, 466
Clute, John, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 102, 120, 172, 183
Cocteau, Jean, 424–25
“Coin-Operated Boy” (song), 481
Colbert Report, The (TV series), 16
Cold War, 179
Cole, Jack, 296
Colour of Magic, The (Pratchett), 100
Come Unto These Yellow Sands (radio play), 447
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, 342
Comic Book Retailers International (CBRI), 234–35
Comic Relief, 115
Comics, 57–58, 229–313; and films, 222–26, 241–42; illiteracy myth about, 7; vs. prose, 242–43
Comics and Sequential Art (Eisner), 287
Company of Wolves, The (movie), 425–26
Complete Father Brown Stories (Chesterton), 37–38, 344–46
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, 317–21
Composting, 55, 173–74
“Concerning Dreams and Nightmares: The Dream Stories of H. P. Lovecraft,” 347–52
“Cone, The” (Wells), 334
“Confessions: On Astro City and Kurt Busiek,” 257–62
Conjure Wife (Leiber), 166
Constable, John, 472–73
Contracts, 246–48
Contract with God, A (Eisner), 286–87, 291
Cook, Peter, 487
Copyright laws, 341–42
Coraline (Gaiman), 68, 77, 86, 109
Coraline (movie), 18, 463–69
Coraline (musical), 86
Coren, Alan, 151, 501
Cornelius, Jerry, 84
Costello, Elvis, 70–71
Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas), 184
“Country of the Blind, The” (Wells), 337–38
Country of the Blind and Other Stories (Wells), Introduction to, 329–39
Course of the Heart, The (Harrison), 365
“Credo,” 3–4
Crompton, Richmal, 102
Crumb, Robert, 303, 310
“Crystal Egg, The” (Wells), 336
Cure for Cancer, A (Moorcock), 121
“Curious Wine: Tori Amos II,” 391–93
Cushing, Peter, 219
Cyberpunk, 185–86; definition of, 120
Dadd, Richard, The Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke, 425, 443–48
Dallas Fantasy Fair (1990), 301
Dandelion Wine (Bradbury), 182
Danse Macabre (King), 129, 323
Dark Knight Returns, The (movie), 222
Darwin, Charles, 42, 331
Davidson, Avram, 168, 193
Davies, Russell T., 217
Daydreaming, 14–15
Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The (Gaiman), 68, 85, 87–88, 107
Day of the Triffids, The (Wyndham), 27, 175
DC Comics, 107, 244–45, 247, 264, 279–81, 327, 400
Deadface (Campbell), Introduction to, 253–56
Deathbird Stories (Ellison), 122–23
Decimal currency, 27–28, 83–84
DeFiore, Morgan, 86
Delany, Chip, 165
Delany, Samuel R., 30, 187–91; The Einstein Intersection, 187–91; Wonder Woman, 166
Derleth, August, 348–49
Dhalgren (Delany), 30, 190
Diamond Comic Distributors speech (1993), 229–37
Diamonds Are Forever (Fleming), 27
Dick, Philip K., 193
Dickens, Charles, 138, 270, 290, 342–43
Dickson, Dave, 30, 282–83
DiCrocco, Christine, 74
Dictionary of Fairies (Briggs), 426
Different Seasons (King), 133
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Adams), 368
Disch, Thomas M., 28, 84, 193
“Disco Mystic” (song), 406
Discworld (Pratchett), 102, 500
Distributionism, 346
Dobson, Dennis, 30
Doctorow, Cory, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, 340–43
Doctor Sleep (King), 134, 135, 137
Doctor Who (TV series), 217–21, 368
Dogsbody (Jones), 97; Introduction to, 373–76
Don’t Panic: The Official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Companion (Gaiman), 115
“Door in the Wall, The” (Wells), 338
Doran, Colleen, 297
Dorman, Sonya, 165
Downey, Robert, Jr., 466
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 83, 183–84, 333
Dracula (Stoker), 322–26
Dracula Tape, The (Saberhagen), 323
“Dream of Armageddon, A” (Wells), 337
“Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, The” (Lovecraft), 352
Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft, Introduction to, 347–52
Dresden Dolls, 213, 477–82
Duffy, Brian, 475
Dumas, Alexandre, 184
Dunsany, Lord, Edward Plunkett, 350; The King of Elfland’s Daughter, 425, 426, 433–35
Duplicator machines, 341–42
Dutch Tulip Bubble, 230–32, 294
Echo Round His Bones (Disch), 28
Eco, Umberto, 351
Edmondson, G. C., 193
“Eight Views of Mount Fuji: Beloved Demons and Anthony Martignetti,” 483–90
Einstein, Albert, 15
Einstein Intersection, The (Delany), Foreword to, 187–91
Eisner, Ann, 285
Eisner, Will, 142, 222, 249, 284–85, 286–93, 296, 297–98; Chicago Comics Convention’s “ashcan” tribute to, 282–85; Will Eisner’s New York: Life in the Big City, 290–93
Eisner Awards Keynote Speech (2003), 294–99
11/22/63 (King), 132
Eliot, T. S., 425, 476
Ellison, Harlan, xvi, 117–28, 165, 194; “Banging the Drum for Harlan Ellison,” 125–28; The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, 117–24
Empathy and fiction, 8
“Empire of the Ants” (Wells), 338
Emshwiller, Carol, 165
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Clute and Nicholls), 102, 120, 172, 183
Eno, Brian, 398
Escape (magazine), 106
Escapism (escapist literature), 8–9, 58–59, 81
Eshbach, Lloyd, 261
Euripides, 254
Evanier, Mark, Kirby: King of Comics, Introduction to, 274–77
Evelyn Evelyn, 415–18, 480
Evelyn Evelyn: A Tragic Tale in Two Tomes (Palmer and Webley), Afterword to, 415–18
Evenings with Neil Gaiman, 342
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay), 229–32
Eye of the Tyger (McCauley), Introduction to, 217–21
Faces of Fantasy, The (Perret), 94
Fagin, Helen, 46–47
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 318; Introduction to, 177–82
Fahrenheit 451 (movie), 180
Failures, 304–5, 453–54
Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke, The (Chadbourn), 448
Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke, The (Dadd), 425, 443–48
Fairy tales, 59–62, 423–29; compared with romance books, 45–46
Family albums, 471–76
Father Brown, 37–38, 344–46
Fellowship of the Ring, The (Tolkien), 35–36
Female storylines, 67–68
Fey, Tina, 466
Finger, Bob, 260
Fire and Hemlock (Jones), 97
“Fireman, The” (Bradbury), 180
Fisher, Jules, 380, 382
Fleming, Ian, 27
Fletcher, Jo, 144
Flood (album), liner notes, 394–96
Flying Inn, The (Chesterton), 38
Focus Features, 464–65
Forbidden Planet, 31, 195–96
Forrest, David, 84
Fortunately, the Milk (Gaiman), 87–88
“Four Bookshops,” 26–32
Fourth World, 275–76
Fox, Gardner, 260
Frankenstein (Shelley), 169
Fraser, George MacDonald, 357
Freedom and libraries, 10
Freelancer life, 456–57
Free speech, 3–4, 74–75
“Fritz Leiber: The Short Stories,” 165–68
From Hell (Moore), 248, 255, 377
“From the Days of Future Past: The Country of the Blind and Other Stories, by H. G. Wells,” 329–39
Fry, Stephen, 224
Gaimain, David, 20–21, 119, 142, 463
Gaiman, Holly, 8, 85, 123, 142, 399–400, 424–25
Gaiman, Maddy, 98, 201–2, 305, 424–25
Gaiman, Michael, xvi, 16, 23
Galvin, Cathy, 129