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They are all so random and based upon chance encounters, and that’s what drives them forward: I just didn’t know what to expect from story to story.

They were just stories.Īnd Gaiman’s stories are full of possibilities. The stories were quite good, but very few had anything to do with the idea of a “trigger” that sets the story in motion and reveals the horror lurking in wait. I had very similar feelings when I read Gaiman’s more recent collection Trigger Warning. I enjoyed it, but I don’t think it quite embodies the model awkwardly proposed.

So the book that has been sold to us feels like a very different thing to the one I read. They are all very unique and individual with a title that could be applied to a number of different short story books instead of this one. It all feels like a desperate attempt to release a collection of unrelated stories into the world.

People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.” There are so many fragile things, after all. “It seemed like a fine title for a book of short stories. Here’s what the introduction says about Fragile Things: By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time. 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 extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance as well as his terrifyingly entertaining dark sense of humor. In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an exclusive epicurean club lament that they've eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird. Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams-and nightmares. 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. 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. A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it.