A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams--and nightmares . . . In a Hugo Award-winning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
β Scribed by Neil Gaiman
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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 . . . In a Hugo Award-winning short story 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 dreamsβand nightmares . . . In a Locus Award-winning tale, 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 moreβincluding a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fictionβcan be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining 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.
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SUMMARY: A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreamsand nightmares . . . In a Hugo Awardwinning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal mur
SUMMARY: A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreamsand nightmares . . . In a Hugo Awardwinning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal mur
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