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Neil Gaiman is a best-selling and award-winning fantasy author that has written fiction and nonfiction. He has also written for television, film, radio, and the theater. Born in 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, the British author is of Polish-Jewish descent.
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The Best American Comics 2010 |
2010 |
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Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero The Newmatic Man: The Complete Comics, Volume One |
2016 |
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Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero The Newmatic Man: The Complete Comics, Volume Two |
2017 |
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Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction |
2007 |
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The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture |
2007 |
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H. Beam Piper: A Biography |
2008 |
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Science Fiction and the Two Cultures: Essays on Bridging the Gap Between the Sciences and the Humanities |
2009 |
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The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination |
2009 |
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The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction |
2009 |
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Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy |
2011 |
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Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy |
2011 |
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The Heritage of Heinlein: A Critical Reading of the Fiction |
2013 |
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The 2017 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2016 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association |
2017 |
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The 2019 Rhysling Anthology: The best science fiction, fantasy & horror poetry of 2018 selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association |
2019 |
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Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury (Short Story) |
2015 |
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Neil Gaiman Anthologies
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Ghastly Beyond Belief |
1985 |
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Gaslight & Ghosts |
1988 |
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Now We Are Sick |
1991 |
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The Weerde, Book 1 |
1992 |
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The Mammoth Book of Vampires |
1992 |
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Touch Wood |
1993 |
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Snow White, Blood Red |
1993 |
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The Weerde, Book 2 |
1993 |
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The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves |
1994 |
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection |
1994 |
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Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears |
1995 |
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Giant Book of Fantasy Tales |
1996 |
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 |
1996 |
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The Sandman: Book of Dreams |
1996 |
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection |
1996 |
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Dark Terrors 3 |
1997 |
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Dark Terrors 4 |
1998 |
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In the Shadow of the Gargoyle |
1998 |
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 |
1999 |
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Silver Birch, Blood Moon |
1999 |
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Dark Detectives |
1999 |
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 |
2000 |
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Bento: Story Art Box |
2001 |
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection |
2001 |
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The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature |
2002 |
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Keep Out The Night |
2002 |
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9-11, Volume 2 |
2002 |
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Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores |
2002 |
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases |
2003 |
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 |
2003 |
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It Was a Dark and Silly Night... |
2003 |
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection |
2003 |
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Shadows Over Baker Street |
2003 |
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The Mammoth Book of New Terror |
2004 |
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New Magics |
2004 |
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection |
2004 |
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 |
2004 |
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Best New Horror 16 |
2005 |
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Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror |
2006 |
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Big Fat Little Lit |
2006 |
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Wizards / Dark Alchemy |
2007 |
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Brothers & Beasts |
2007 |
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The British Invasion, Volume 1 |
2007 |
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Best New Horror 19 |
2008 |
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Smoke and Mirrors |
2009 |
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Best New Horror 20 |
2009 |
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Ravens in the Library: Magic in the Bard's Name |
2009 |
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Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance |
2009 |
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Half-Minute Horrors |
2009 |
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Hellbound Hearts |
2009 |
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Stories: All New Tales |
2010 |
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The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse |
2010 |
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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales |
2010 |
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Zombies: The Recent Dead |
2010 |
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Songs of Love and Death |
2010 |
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Visitants |
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Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead |
2011 |
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Happily Ever After |
2011 |
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The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons |
2011 |
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The Urban Fantasy Anthology |
2011 |
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Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed |
2011 |
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A Study in Sherlock |
2011 |
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The Recent Weird |
2011 |
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The Mammoth Book of Body Horror |
2012 |
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Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful |
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Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury |
2012 |
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Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron |
2012 |
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Ghosts: Recent Hauntings |
2012 |
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Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane |
2012 |
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The Book of Cthulhu II |
2012 |
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All Star Future Shocks |
2013 |
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Weird Detectives |
2013 |
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The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime Volume 10. |
2013 |
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Unnatural Creatures |
2013 |
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Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly |
2013 |
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Fearie Tales |
2013 |
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Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 |
2013 |
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Best New Horror 24 |
2013 |
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Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala |
2013 |
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Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories |
2013 |
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Best New Horror 25 |
2014 |
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OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters |
2014 |
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six |
2014 |
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Rogues |
2014 |
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition |
2014 |
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Zombies: More Recent Dead |
2014 |
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Doctor Who: 12 Doctors, 12 Stories |
2014 |
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Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep |
2015 |
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Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury |
2015 |
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Unidentified Funny Objects 4 |
2015 |
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Gutted |
2016 |
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Darker Terrors 7 |
2016 |
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The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight |
2016 |
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Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life |
2016 |
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Best New Horror 27 |
2017 |
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The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories |
2017 |
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Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders |
2017 |
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The Best of Uncanny |
2018 |
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Fables from the Fountain |
2018 |
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Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology |
2018 |
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The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories |
2018 |
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The Best of the Best Horror of the Year |
2018 |
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Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets |
2018 |
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The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories |
2019 |
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Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories |
2019 |
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Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends |
2019 |
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Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night |
2019 |
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Dark Tides |
2019 |
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War on Christmas |
2020 |
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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases |
2020 |
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Marvel Comics #1000 |
2020 |
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Relics, Wrecks and Ruins |
2021 |
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Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes |
2022 |
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Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich |
2022 |
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Twice Cursed |
2023 |
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Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering |
2024 |
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His great-grandfather left Antwerp (Belgium) for the UK in the early 1900s. Gaiman’s grandfather found a home in Portsmouth, England where he nurtured his chain of grocery stores. During those days, Gaiman’s grandfather went by the name ‘Chaiman’.
This was the surname his family carried. However, he eventually changed it to ‘Gaiman’ which the author and his father also use. The son of a pharmacist (mother) and an older brother to two sisters, Neil Gaiman’s history is heavily steeped in Scientology.
Not only did his parents frequent the East Grinstead (West Sussex) Scientology center but his sister eventually landed a job at LA’s Church of Scientology. His sisters have always described themselves as a family of Jewish-Scientologists.
Gaiman agrees with this description. However, he does not associate with Judaism and Scientology. While he agrees that the beliefs stand at the center of his family’s values, he hasn’t embraced them.
Before Gaiman became a bestselling author, he was an avid reader. This made Gaiman a great student. Because he took to reading at the tender age of four, he would always read the textbooks the school handed out to the students at the beginning of the term.
As such, he was far better prepared than most of his classmates. His fascination with fantasy was shaped by Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. He found the first two books in the school library and they took his breath away.
He was fortunate enough to win an Engish Prize at his school because the winnings allowed him to secure the final novel in the LOTR series. Gaiman’s reading habits were further advanced by C.S. Lewis.
Gaiman couldn’t get enough of Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. He was fascinated by the writer’s parenthetical statements and he couldn’t wait to replicate the technique when he became a published author.
As a young adult, Gaiman’s talents took him into journalism. He spent the early 1980s doing interviews and writing for publications like Imagine Magazine and the British Fantasy Society. Gaiman knew that he wanted to write novels, and he hoped that his work as a journalist would afford him the connections he needed to advance in the industry.
But then he stumbled upon a copy of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing as he waited for a train at Victoria Station and everything changed. The issue blew Gaiman’s mind because he did not expect comic books to take such a fresh and exciting approach to storytelling.
It was at that point that the author pivoted into comic books. Some people might remember Gaiman in the 1980s for his Duran Duran biography. But the book was eventually eclipsed by the work he did on titles like ‘Black Orchid’, ‘The Sandman’, and ‘ Swamp Thing’.
It wasn’t until 1996 that Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman’s first novel was published, turning him into the fantasy fiction icon that everyone knows.
Neil Gaiman Awards
Gaiman’s long list of accolades includes World Fantasy, Mythopoeic Fantasy, Bram Stoker, Hugo, Newberry Medal, and Nebula Awards.
Neil Gaiman Books into Movies
Stardust, Gaiman’s 1997 novel, became a 2007 live-action movie starring Charlie Cox and Claire Danes. Coraline, Gaiman’s 2002 novella, became a 2009 stop-motion animated movie of the same name.
American Gods, a 2001 novel, became a 2017 live-action TV show. Good Omens, which Gaiman wrote with Terry Pratchett in 1990 also received a live-action TV adaptation in 2019.
Best Neil Gaiman Books
Gaiman’s dreams of writing fiction were kickstarted by R. A. Lafferty. Gaiman wrote him a letter at the age of nine and Lafferty responded with a highly informative letter filled with literary advice. Some of the best books in Gaiman’s bibliography include:
Coraline: When Coraline’s family moved into their new flat, she noticed that, of the fourteen doors, only thirteen could open. The fourteenth was supposed to lead to a brick wall. But when Coraline opened it one random day, she found a passage leading to another house, one that not only looked like hers but which had a father and a mother who wanted Coraline to stay with them.
What’s more, Coraline found that other children were trapped in mirrors in this bizarre house, and Coraline was their only hope.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: When a middle-aged man returns home for a funeral, he cannot help but visit the farm at the end of the road. At first, the farm sparks all the right memories, reminding the man of the remarkable girl he met there when he was 7. But then new memories start emerging, terrible memories filled with death and darkness and promises from young, magical Lettie Hempstock.
When Does The Next Neil Gaiman book come out?
Neil Gaiman doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Norse Mythology Volume 3 and was released on February, 28th 2023. It is the newest book in the Norse Mythology: The Graphic Novels Series.
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