![]() While you won’t find too many comics writers, including Gaiman, using that phrase much, given how it smells faintly of pomposity, what is undeniably true is that The Sandman was more responsible than most in creating the adult, non-superhero comic. It’s the series that changed comics forever, fuelling the rise of its more highbrow cousin, the graphic novel. The epic story of Dream of the Endless is quite certainly what made Gaiman a household name. What separates Gaiman from King, though, is that he also writes comics-and is the writer of perhaps the greatest of them all, The Sandman. His short story collections are even more varied. His novels, like Coraline, Neverwhere and American Gods, are genre-hopping classics, straddling horror, speculative fiction and fantasy. That makes sense, since Gaiman, somewhat like Stephen King, is an extremely prolific writer. “One reason that people don’t necessarily read my books is because they don’t know where to start, and all of the books and all of the stories are very different,” he says. Comprising many of his short stories as well as some novel extracts, the Reader makes for a good introduction. Published in early October by HarperCollins, the book contains 52 pieces from Gaiman’s large and varied body of fiction over 30 years. He’s talking about The Neil Gaiman Reader. “I am one of those people, more people know who I am than have read my books,” says Neil Gaiman over the phone from his home in the Isle of Skye in Scotland. ![]()
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