FragileThings

FRAGILE THINGS S HORT F ICTIONS AND W ONDERS NEIL GAIMAN For Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison, and the late Robert Sheckley, masters of the craft CONTENTS Introduction A Study in Emerald The Fairy Reel October in the Chair The Hidden Chamber Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire The Flints of Memory Lane Closing Time Going Wodwo Bitter Grounds Other People Keepsakes and Treasures Good Boys Deserve Favors The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch Strange Little Girls Harlequin Valentine Locks The Problem of Susan Instructions How Do You Think It Feels? My Life Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot Feeders and Eaters Diseasemaker’s Croup In the End Goliath 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 The Day the Saucers Came Sunbird Inventing Aladdin The Monarch of the Glen About the Author Other Books by Neil Gaiman Credits Copyright About the Publisher INTRODUCTION “I think…that I would rather recollect a life misspent on ......