Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

by Neil Gaiman

In Trigger Warning, global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things, which includes a never-before published American Gods story, BLACK DOG.

The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime in November 2015.

'We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting. These are stories about those masks, and the people we are underneath them.' Neil Gaiman, writing from a cabin in the dark woods.

Make sure you secure your own mask before reading. Before being transported to worlds filled with witches, watchers and big black bees, with deathless Kin and pirate girls, with things that prowl in the darkness beyond the circle fire, to find the Shadder lurking at your journey's end. But then what happens? There's always something waiting for you. There's always more. Just keep turning the pages.

'We each have our little triggers.'

Literary alchemy from 'a writer of rare perception and endless imagination' (William Gibson), TRIGGER WARNING is a cornucopia of storytelling: horror and ghost stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry. It will open your eyes to the inexhaustible supply of darkness around you, the magic and the monsters, the myths and the miracles, and to finding truths in the most extraordinary of places.

• ISBN10: 1472217683
• ISBN13: 9781472217684
• Publish Date: 3 February 2015 (first published 1 February 2015)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 27 April 2016
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
• Imprint: Headline Book Publishing
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

[leahrosereads]

I finally finished this short story collection! When I started it back in 2015, the short story "Orange" had me putting the book down and never going back to it.

3 years later, I tried again (starting from the beginning and skipping "Orange" when I got to it), and I'm so freaking glad I was able to complete it. Most of these stories are fantastic, and I can see why Neil Gaiman has been labeled as a master short story teller. He can weave such wonderful stories in so few pages, it's genuinely incredible.

I don't think I can pick a favorite, because I loved so many, but I do have a least favorite, and it's the reason I had to drop this by a star.

I mean, I DNF'd this book for three years because of it.

[adastra]

Another wonderful collection of short stories out of Neil Gaiman's feather - especially exciting are the new stories about Shadow from American Gods, Doctor Who (alas, my least favorite Doctor, but still) and even Sherlock Holmes. But I don't want to indicate that those are the only good stories. Some of the original ones are also quite mind-boggling/charming/wonderful/fantastic. Just what you'd expect from Neil Gaiman.

However, ironically my attention span doesn't agree with short stories so much. Some of the stories just didn't catch my attention, so I ended up just skipping ahead to the next story. I much prefer Neil Gaiman's full-length novels, and I hope there are many to come in the future.