A review by ofearna
Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany by Neil Gaiman

5.0

I quite adore the short fiction of Neil Gaiman. If you're interested in seeing/hearing him read his short story "Chivalry" it's one of the extras on the DVD *John Bolton: A Short Film By Neil Gaiman*

re-read 9/14/2013 - 9/21/2013
  • The Song of the Audience • poem
  • Chivalry • (1992) ** Love this story !!!
  • Nicholas Was . . . • (1990) super-short Christmas Anti-Klaus story
  • Babycakes • (1990) Neil's tongue-in-check "A Modest Proposal"
  • Troll Bridge • (1993) I read this first in the first RoF Mag
  • Vampire Sestina • (1989) Neil's only vampire "fiction"
  • Webs • (1990) Ick spiders
  • Six to Six • (1990) essay/short about a night experiencing London's nightlife
  • A Prologue (1989) intro to Mary Gentle's Scholars & Soldiers
  • Foreign Parts • (1990) getting VD from self-service, written during the AIDS scare
  • Cold Colours • (1990) • poem/short story about using computers and magic in tandem to re-write the world
  • Luther's Villanelle • (1989) • poem a deja vu birthday present
  • Mouse • (1993) • does he *really* want to catch that mouse?
  • Gumshoe (1989) • book review about a book he can't find
  • The Case of the 4 and 20 Blackbirds • (1984) • juvenilia a'la Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime Division
  • Virus • (1990) • poem/story about a video game (that kinda sounds like Tetris) taking over the WORLD
  • Looking for the Girl • (1985) • Having her picture (in various steps of nude) keeps a mystery girl 19 years old forever.
  • Post-Mortem on Our Love • (1993) • poem dissecting a past relationship and why it "died"
  • Being an Experiment Upon Strictly Scientific Lines • (1990) • essay/story about how alcohol affects a writer's prose (drunkenly)
  • We Can Get Them for You Wholesale • (1989) • hiring a hit-man Wholesale; kinda reminded me of "One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock"
  • The Mystery of Father Brown • (1991) • essay about why Neil loved the Father Brown mysteries
  • Murder Mysteries • (1992) • wow, my memory had totally deleted the twist that's more evident in the graphic novel version of this story...