Author: Neil Gaiman

Cites

• Maurice Sendak, (in conversation with Art Spiegelman) (1)
  • IN: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013) Fiction, Realistic fiction, , British
    EPIGRAPH: "I remember my own childhood vividly... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them."
    FROM: The New Yorker, (1993), Article, NULL
• G. K. Chesterton (2)
  • IN: Neverwhere (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "I have never been to St John's Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of fir trees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the beating of the wings of the EAgle."
    FROM: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, (1904), Novel, UK
  • IN: Coraline (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
    FROM: The Red Angel, (1909), Essay, UK
• Andrew and Berninger, Matt Bird (1)
  • IN: Neverwhere (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: "If ever thou gavest hosen or shoon / Then every night and all / Sit thou down and put them on / And Christ receive thy soul This aye night, this aye night / Every night and all / Fire and fleet and candlelight / And Christ receive thy soul If ever thou gavest meat or drink / Then every night and all / The free shall never make thee shrink / And Christ receive thy soul"
    FROM: "The Lyke Wake Dirge", (2014), Song, US
• Richard Dorson (1)
  • IN: American Gods (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies, Norwegian-Americans the nisser, Greek-Americans the vrykolakas, but only in relation to events remembered in the Old Country. When I once asked why such demons are not seen in America, my informants giggled confusedly and said ‘They’re scared to pass the ocean, it’s too far,’ pointing out that Christ and the apostles never came to America.
    FROM: "A Theory for American Folklore", American Folklore and the Historian, (1971), Essay, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Graveyard Book (2008) Fiction, Supernatural Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Rattle his bones Over the stones It's only a pauper Who nobody owns
    FROM: Traditional Nursery Rhyme, (None), Song, NULL
• Ogden Nash (1)
  • IN: Smoke and Mirrors: Short fictions and Illusions (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But where there's a monster there's a miracle.
    FROM: Dragons are too Seldom, (1945), Poem, US
• John Donne (1)
  • IN: Stardust (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil’s foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If thou be’est born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, Thou, when thou return’st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear Nowhere Lives a woman true, and fair. If thou find’st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet, Yet do not, I would not go, Though at next door we might meet, Though she were true when you met her, And last, till you write your letter, Yet she Will be
    FROM: Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star, (1633), Song, UK

Cited by

• Nilanjana Roy (1)
  • IN: The Wildings (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Dream the world the way it truly is. A world in which all cats are queens and kings of creation.
    FROM: A Dream of a Thousand Cats, (1990), Poem, UK
• Benjamin Percy (1)
  • IN: The Dead Lands (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All stories are in conversation with other stories.
    FROM: Stories, (2011), Book, UK
• Asa Avdic (1)
  • IN: The Dying Game (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: "It's a two-man con," said Shadow. "It's not war at all, is it?"
    FROM: American Gods, (2001), Novel, UK
• Annie Spence (1)
  • IN: Dear Fahrenheit 451 (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
    FROM: Gaiman's online Journal, (2004), Journal, UK