Download PDF by Neil Gaiman: Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

By Neil Gaiman

ISBN-10: 0060515228

ISBN-13: 9780060515225

A mysterious circus terrifies an viewers for one amazing functionality earlier than disappearing into the evening, taking one of many spectators besides it . . .

In a novella set years after the occasions of American Gods, Shadow can pay a trip to an historical Scottish mansion, and reveals himself trapped in a online game of homicide and monsters . . .

In a Hugo Award-winning brief tale set in a surprisingly altered Victorian England, the good detective Sherlock Holmes needs to remedy a so much unsettling royal homicide . . .

teenage boys crash a celebration and meet the ladies in their dreams—and nightmares . . .

In a Locus Award-winning story, the participants of an excusive epicurean membership lament that they've eaten every thing that may be eaten, aside from a mythical, infrequent, and quite risky Egyptian chicken . . .

Such awesome creations and more—including a quick tale set on this planet of The Matrix, and others set within the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fiction—can be present in this remarkable assortment, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance in addition to his terrifyingly unique darkish humorousness. by way of turns pleasant, tense, and diverting, Fragile issues is a present of literary appeal from the most specified writers of our time.

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His eyes scanned the scene, and he hopped from his perch. ” Dexter made one last furtive glance at the hunk of steel before swishing after his friend through the thick grass. Cole meandered past loose hunks of broken chrome and black rubber tubing until he came upon a half-buried exercise bike. He swung one leg over the seat and pulled himself into a proper mount. In the grass behind them, Ralph scavenged on the ground for small bits of treasure like a chubby raccoon. Cole pushed his feet in vicious circles on the loose pedals of the bike.

They called her name. They hunted. Five children broke the house apart with as much logic as they could muster, going from room to room with the name Lisa on their lips. The basement door, left unattended during the search, remained closed. “She’s not here,” Danny muttered after a half-hour of fruitless search. ” The children jumped, surprised to see Theo and Lisa’s mom, hands on hips. ” she repeated. “Remember this,” Dan said, opening a manila envelope and sliding a picture across the table.

It was her own voice—she’d even scared herself. She tried, but a smile wouldn’t come. Puckers of gooseflesh covered her arms. Her friends still ambled about upstairs. Her heart throbbed, but she couldn’t give in now. Not now. The Game was still on. The window. Yes. She could climb the book case and work her way out of the house through one of the narrow basement windows. She planted her feet and pulled her body to the shelf. The window tilted in toward the ceiling with a squeak. She listened again.

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