The Dreaming

Tor has one of Neil’s old stories (it says copyright 1986!) online, “I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?“, along with the above marvelous illustration by Brian Elig.

Wired News has Comic Book Artists Illustrate Sci-Fi Legends where you can find this great drawing of Neil writing in a Graveyard as well as Alan Moore as a floating-ink apparition/wizard and many more.

Shelfari has an article and a lot of gorgeous photos of Neil’s bookshelves.

…Dull days at forty, false friends at fifteen;
Let her have brave days and truth.
Let her go places that we’ve never been;
Trust and delight in her youth.

Ladies of Grace, and Ladies of Favour,
And Ladies of Merciful Night,
This is a prayer for a Blueberry Girl,
Grant her your Clearness of Sight.

Words can be worrisome, people complex;
Motives and manners unclear.
Grant her the wisdom to choose her path right,
Free from unkindness and fear.

Let her tell stories, and dance in the rain,
Somersaults, tumble and run;
Her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep,
Let her grow like a weed in the sun…

Based on a Neil Gaiman short story, animated by Gahan Wilson and directed by Steven-Charles Jaffe

The latest SomethingPositive has Neil dealing with critics who call Coraline a Tim Burton movie…. lethally.

Pop Culture Shock has a preview of Endless Nights Special, which is available now (Endless Nights Special, not the preview… well, the preview is available now too, obviously… ahem.)

Today’s Geekout Comic has an appearance by you-know-who.

Neil mentioned it (and LucyAnne & I!) in his journal, but they’re so gorgeous I have to post the link to P. Craig Russell’s Murder Mysteries adapation preview.

Wow!

Charles de Lint reviewed both American Gods and the Quotable Sandman in the Sept. 2001 Fantasy and Science Fiction.

But if you read the blog you probably knew that.