num_pages: 384
description: This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0060515236 (ISBN13: 9780060515232).Fragile Things is Neil Gaiman's second collection of short fiction.A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night taking one of the spectators along with it.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.Another short story is set in a strangely altered Victorian England the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder.Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams and nightmares.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.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. By turns delightful disturbing and diverting Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time.Contents: A Study in Emerald  (2003)  novelette The Fairy Reel  (2004)  poem (variant of The Faery Reel) October in the Chair  (2002)  shortstory The Hidden Chamber  (2005)  poem Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire  (2004)  shortstory (variant of Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire) The Flints of Memory Lane  (1997)  essay Closing Time  (2003)  shortstory Going Wodwo  (2002)  poem Bitter Grounds  (2003)  novelette Other People  (2001)  shortstory Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story  (1999)  shortstory Good Boys Deserve Favours  (1995)  shortstory The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch  (1998)  shortstory Strange Little Girls  (2001)  shortstory Harlequin Valentine  (1999)  shortstory Locks  (1999)  poem The Problem of Susan  (2004)  shortstory Instructions  (2000)  poem How Do You Think It Feels?  (1998)  shortstory My Life  (2002)  poem Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot  (1998)  shortstory Feeders and Eaters  (2002)  shortstory Diseasemaker's Croup  (2003)  shortstory In the End  (1996)  shortstory Goliath  (1998)  shortstory Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa Oklahoma and Louisville Kentucky  (2002)  shortstory How to Talk to Girls at Parties  (2006)  shortstory The Day the Saucers Came  (2006)  poem Sunbird  (2005)  novelette Inventing Aladdin  (2003)  poem The Monarch of the Glen  [American Gods]  (2003)  novelette
language: English
title: Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
publisher: William Morrow