Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders (edit title)

holly o edited the first sentence of Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders 13 days ago.

• " I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt."

Amanda approved Jess’s request to combine 6 books, including Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, 2 weeks ago.

Jess submitted a request to combine 6 books, including Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, 2 weeks ago.

Haley M edited the table of contents of Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders Wednesday, November 4 2009.

• Introduction

  1. A Study in Emerald
  2. The Fairy Reel
  3. October in the Chair
  4. The Hidden Chamber
  5. Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire
  6. The Flints of Memory Lane
  7. Closing Time
  8. Going Wodwo
  9. Bitter Grounds
  10. Other People
  11. Keepsakes and Treasures
  12. Good Boys Deserve Favors
  13. The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch
  14. Strange Little Girls
  15. Harlequin Valentine
  16. Locks
  17. The Problem of Susan
  18. Instructions
  19. How Do You Think It Feels?
  20. My Life
  21. Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot
  22. Feeders and Eaters
  23. Diseasemaker's Croup
  24. In the End
  25. Goliath
  26. Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Louisville, Kentucky
  27. How to Talk to Girls at Parties
  28. The Day the Saucers Came
  29. Sunbird
  30. Inventing Aladdin
  31. The Monarch of the Glen

  Credits

Shelfari edited the description of Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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 dreams—and 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 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. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most unique writers of our time.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Neil Gaiman: (Primary Author)