I am curious to hear what you guys thought of the American God show? I am planning to start watching it tonight. This was one of my all time favorite books (& I have read A LOT) I don't expect the show to be as good as the book but let me know what you thought

I've been craving the graveyard book lately. My first Gaiman book was Od and the frost giants. SPARKED my lifelong love of norse mythology. Then coraline. Then american gods. THEN draveyard book. But I like Bod. I resonate so hard with him. But I'm so incredibly angry at gaiman. How could not be? I couldn't even watch the full alligations. I was physically ill. (Why I don't read body or erotic horror)
But here's the thing. I learned some things about Derek Landy. And they hurt. A lot. Not as bd at gaiman, not even in the same ballpark, really. But it made me sad. And then I was like "You can't tell me Lalkyrie wouldn't punch him in the face for that shit." Same thing here. You can espouse amazing values while being shit.
I used to know someone who would say "If it's not enthusiastic consent, it's not consent." That same person later coersed someone into sex under much hesitation, eventually saying yes out of fear of losing home and shelter. he didn't live up to that value. But that value is accurate.
You think Bod's parents, the ghosts, not his bio parents, would have been chill with ANY of that? NO. Of course not. You can still learn the good things while realizing that sometimes, people are just hypocrites. That doesn't mean they didn't leave an important message that can actually benefit humanity to nobody's detriment. Um. No pun intended. It can just be a thing we do because it's the right thing.
In short, just because he did a bunch of awful things, it doesn't mean that those of us that came out of his books wiwith empathy and a deeper sense of care for those around us were wrong in doing so. It just means that he built a fantasy of who he thought he should be, while concealing something pretty dark. Kinda like the cthulhu books he worked on. Or, you know. Any of the gods in american gods. Or Jack, Scarlet's mom's... Hunanfriend?
tted for some spelling stuff, will try to fix more later, bit of a rush rn.

Apologies in advance for the very long post, but I know that a lot of you have a deep reading history and love of the medium and I figure that the more context I can offer the more custom tailored the recommendations will be.

I either own, or have already read virtually every Neil Gaiman comic including the many graphic adaptations of his short stories.

All time favorite books/series that provided the high I’m still chasing:

• Sandman (and all related penned by Gaiman himself)
• Virtually all of his other Vertigo work, especially the Books of Magic mini-series

Things not by Neil that I loved as much, or almost as much:

• Invisibles
• All Star Superman
• Killing Joke
• Kingdom Come
• Marvels 
• Arkham Asylum: Serious House on Serious Earth

Have not read in 40 years so no idea if they hold up now but have formative memories of:

• X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills 1982 Graphic Novel
• Dazzler: The Movie 1982 Graphic Novel
• Bill Sienkiewicz run of New Mutants

Second tier of things I really enjoyed but don’t quite make the above all time favorites list:

• Mike Carey’s original Lucifer Series
• Dark Knight Returns 
• Stardust
• I, Gregory

Extremely well rated and frequently recommended titles which either didn’t leave a lasting impression or just didn't hit for me the way the above titles did:

• Original John Ney Rieber Books of Magic series
• Fables
• Y The Last Man
• 100 Bullets
• Ex Machina
• Batman Year One
• Promethea
• Watchmen (while I know it’s heretical I actually loved the HBO sequel show way more than the original book)
• Black Orchid
• Mr. Punch
• Marvel 1602
• Gaiman’s Eternals
• Gaiman’s Murder Mysteries
• Violent Cases
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 
• Top Ten
• Persepolis
• Alan Moore Swamp Thing
• Runaways
• We3

A few things I bounced off (admittedly only tried the first issue or two):

• Preacher
• Grant Morrison’s X-Men
• Bone
• Maus

Things I already have access to, or have on my library list:

• Saga
• Wicked + Divine
• Best new Sandman Universe titles (Lucifer, The Dreaming, Nightmare Country, John Constantine Hellblazer, Deadboy Detectives, Thessaly, Locke & Key: Hell & Gone)
• Shade the Changing Man
• From Hell
• Unwritten
• Ice Cream Man
• Miracleman (Moore & Gaiman runs)
• Hellboy
• Monsters
• Die
• Once & Future
• Sex Criminals
• Nice House on The Lake
• Something is Killing The Chidren
• Brubaker's Criminal, Fatale, and Velvet
• ODY-C
• Wytches
• Moonshadow
• Gideon Falls
• Locke & Key
• Sandman Mystery Theatre

I tend to favor philosophical, metaphysical, fantasy, sci-fi, supernatural, psychological, literary, mystical, macabre, or psychedelic over pure realistic/hardboiled, but open to exceptions for things that are truly transcendent.

Open to superhero books which are exceptionally sophisticated, high-brow, high-concept, or truly unusual. (Marvels, Kingdom Come, All-Star Superman, Arkham Asylum: Serious House being perfect examples of what that means to me at least)

Open to horror, extreme violence, and/or explicit sexual content, but by no means need any of that to be present. Think HBO shows, did enjoy Sunstone, and liked the old Heavy Metal magazine growing up. For me the quality of the content trumps all. I can enjoy something overtly queer or highly feminist just as much as something deemed misogynist or exploitive by some if it's artistically or creatively outstanding.

As far as non-comic media some of my all time favorite shows that are a bit lesser known are Utopia (UK show), DEVS, Rectify, Patriot, and more well known; Severence, Game of Thrones S1-6, True Detective S1. In film I dig Alex Garland, Charlie Kaufman, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, Christopher Nolan, Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Yorgos Lanthimos, Denis Villeneuve.

While series and graphic novels are obviously great, I'm definitely open to one-shots, mini-series, and lesser known titles that aren't collected provided I can get the floppies without paying an absolute fortune. (library system here in NYC has a very deep catalog of TPBs and happy to buy floppies online via eBay, AtomicAvenue, etc.)

Why is this such a popular book? I wasn't amazed by the actual story here but that's just me.

This is probably the wrong subreddit to post this. I've not read any of his other works besides American Gods and Sandman. Couldn't enjoy AG because of the not-so-subtle suggestive sexualization of kids. I notice there's a similar trend with his other books in creating unhealthy depictions of women and kids.

Learning the allegations exist (after reading) made a lot of sense to me.

Also lots of cringe and revisionist depictions of Arabs and Africans.

I will not be giving him another chance because I read to enjoy myself and not creep on imaginary kids.

I vaguely recall him saying within the last year that he would be self publishing from now on because the trad publishers banished him.

Would anyone here pay for his self pubbed work?

By god I have not been this disappointed with a book adaptation since I watched the Miss Peregrine's Home for peculiar children.

I mean just wow, did off with the whole fae aspect almost completely, no fae night market. I mean they rushed through the whole book so fucking fast I'm surprised they even cared to start the movie with Trinston's dad's visit to the fae world, and didn't just start it with Tristran.

I mean I'm sorry if I'm rehashing things that everyone already knows, tbh I completely forgot this book had a movie until just a but ago when i saw it while searching on Tubi. But by god, I mean maybe if they spent a little less on all the shitty CGI they could have had a story writer who would actually read the fucking book they are supposed to be adapting.

I will say tho, music was great even if they seemed to be playing loud af about 80% of the movie. Also the last battle against Lamia, the fight choreography was actually pretty fun especially the fight against Septimus using the voodoo doll. Also I ngl kinda like the ending where Tristran and Yvaine use the candle to both become stars instead of Tristran dying and Yvaine living on as the sole ruler of the kingdom. And I guess i did sorta like Captain Shakespeare a lil more in this movie than the book.

I am half way through the book, and enjoying it. Has anyone seen the TV version?

So I'm reading the coraline graphic novel (bought second hand to not give money to gaiman).

The book mentions Spink and Forcible's dogs as Highland terriers. Which are usually referring to westies or Cairn terriers.

I distinctly remember the laika film using Scottish terriers instead.

It's been ages since i read the novel, I'm surprised I never noticed that before.

I work as a bookseller at a large independent bookstore in New England, and I recently generated a sales report to see whether or not sales have decreased for Gaiman books. While I can’t share exact figures (idk if my boss would want that), I thought people here might be interested to know that his sales dropped significantly since the release of the Vulture article in late April 2025.

Initially, I just checked for all titles Gaiman’s name is on, comparing sales quantity from May 2024–April 2025 to quantity from May 2025–April 2026, and the decrease in items sold was a little over 50%. To eliminate confounds and see if this was organic customer response to Gaiman’s authorship, I then restricted the comparison to only include sales of items with all following parameters:

• part of a section I know saw increased year-over-year sales during May 2025–April 2026
• part of a section overseen by a book buyer who I know doesn’t order less books out of ethical compunction
• Gaiman recorded as an author (instead of as penning an introduction, like on the 60th Anniversary Edition of Fahrenheit 451)
• stocked continuously from May 2024–April 2026

This left me only with books from our adult fantasy and graphic novel sections (though sales were still large enough to be a decent sample). This time it was about a 45% decrease. Still very massive.

I was quite surprised since my intuition was that sales hadn’t dropped very much; we still sell quite a lot of, so I guess I’m just noticing them selling more than I used to.

Also, I’d caution against extrapolating these numbers to his sales overall, because the independent bookstore customer-base is distinct from other customer-bases, like Amazon shoppers or even Barnes & Noble shoppers

I really loved the catharsis of seeing Richard Madoc get his ass handed to him by a being even more powerful than a god, one of the primordial elements of the universe given Human (sometimes) form. It really meant a lot to me, as someone who has experienced sexual violence myself-it almost felt like Dream was on my side, too, like he was protecting me. And not gonna lie? It felt really, really good to watch Madoc suffer.

Thinking about it now, knowing that Gaiman basically is Richard Madoc, it just feels....gross.

Like, I dunno Neil, why was it important to you to write a story where a woman forgives her rapist? The man who kept her prisoner and repeatedly abused her? Why was that a thing you did? Cause, initially it seemed like it was something she did to herself; she made a choice to be better than him, and not let her trauma define her-she chose to move on. But now.....

IDK, it's just something I keep coming back to; I know that in the comics the story is different, and I haven't read them (when all of this came out, I realized that for the most part I've kind of only experienced Gaiman's work through adaptation, and I kind of wonder if it was because I only liked his art when it was filtered through someone else? But maybe that's wishful thinking. It just really sucks when the actions of a real person ruins a piece of art that was meaningful to us, it sucks when people disappoint us.

EDIT a lot of people have taken issue with the way I used the word "forgiveness" in this post, and have decided to argue with me about the definition of that word; so here are some definitions I have found for the word "forgiveness":

Greater Good Magazine (published by UC Berkeley) (emphasis mine)

Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

to cease to feel resentment against (an offender)
to give up resentment of or claim to requital

The Cambridge English Dictionary

to stop blaming or being mad at someone for something that person has done, or not punish them for something

Other words you may be looking for:

Absolution:

To absolve someone is to no longer hold them morally accountable for an action, as if they had never done it. This is a popular concept in Christianity, especially Catholicism, and it is often tied to forgiveness, but it is not the same.

Redemption:

To redeem yourself is to work to make amends for your past actions. Usually by either providing restitution to the people you have harmed, or working to prevent the same thing from happening to others. This is sometimes done with the hope of earning forgiveness, and many times forgiveness is only given after a person makes an effort to redeem themselves, but neither one actually requires the other. One might also consider true redemption to only be possible on a moral level when it is motivated by genuine guilt or regret, rather than wanting to no longer be defined or held accountable for the things you have done in the past.

Maybe, before you pull out the old "words mean something", you should consider whether you know what you are talking about, and if the person you've chosen to be condescending to may be someone who was reading at a college level when they were in third grade and is fueled entirely by spite and/or easily annoyed when five different people say the same wrong thing to them within the span of a couple of days!

Lots of love!! <3

So, I recently found my copy of Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror. For those who don't know, it's a short story anthology of Sherlock Holmes adventures set in the world of HP Lovecraft, and at least for my copy, the cover looks like this (not my photo)

Obviously, Neil Gaiman contributed one of the stories, and they were initially very proud of that-when I went to find a picture, a lot of the more recent ones didn't have the sticker thing for 'A Study in Emerald', but I'm not sure if that's just cause some of them didn't or if the newer copies don't have it.

If they ever do a reprint, what do you think will happen, what do you think *should* happen? Should they just take off the badge but leave the story? Should they remove the story? I'm not sure what his contract would be wrt residuals from the book, so maybe he would still get money if they did, but also maybe he wouldn't? I don't really know, I don't even know how likely it is for short story anthologies like this from indie publishers to *get* a reprint-I'd just be interested to hear everybody's thoughts

The plot: A dad goes out to buy milk and doesn’t come home for several hours. When he gets home his children ask what he had been doing, and he tells them a long fantastical tale of crazy things that happened to him and made him late.

A child checked out Fortunately The Milk from me at the library today, and it got me thinking about the plot. I remember enjoying that book, but feeling like I was missing something, never knowing the real reason the dad in the story took so long to come home.

Knowing more about who Neil Gaiman is as a person puts this story into a different perspective for me. What could he have been doing for hours while “going out to get the milk” that he was unable to explain to his children? Instead of apologizing for being late, he places the blame on others with an impossible explanation. When the children question his story, he adds another layer of confusion to it, in a way that now feels manipulative. Why did he feel the need to lie and make up a story in the first place?

I’m sure I’m over analyzing this story, but I do feel that bits who an author is can unintentionally seep into their writing. I’ve seen others point out more obvious examples of this in Gaiman’s works, and I just wanted to point out a seemingly more innocuous version.

Do I want to foster a community in which SA survivors feel safe about coming forward with their stories? Do I want to be someone that a SA survivor would feel comfortable disclosing their abuse to?

If you’re still cosplaying as Death, you look like someone who finds sexual assault allegations inconvenient but not appalling. You look like a subpar ally who wishes accusers would go away.

I'm from Aus and have been a long time fan of the Sandman comics. Me and some friends are going to Ozcon (essentially aussie comicon) soon and since I don't have much time on my hands, I decided to go as Death!! She's my favourite character from the comic series, and I've been doing some trials for her costume and they look so cool :))

I'm just more nervous about actually going as her. I don't want to make the impression I support that monster, but I also believe in seperating the art from the artist. I was considering using a leather javket with a patch of "fuck Neil Gaiman" on it, but I'm not sure anymore. I was also planning on posting this on my instagram with my friends, of whom do know about Gaiman's terrible actions.

Just thought it would be worth it to ask a wider community their opinion. I really want to go as Death (and honestly worse comes to worse I can be some random babygoth) but I also really don't want to make others uncomfortable bring arounf someone who supports Gaiman, or worse think I condone his actions :((

any advice/opinions/help appreaciated!!! ( ´∀｀ )b

A couple times a year, different posters on this forum have posted about their plans/aspirations to use washi tape to cover up Neil Gaiman's name on their copies of his books.

I'm curious about the kind of person who need to hold onto the books but cannot stand to read the name of the author. Is this a common response among fans of a discredited writer, or is it a behavior only found among (some) Gaiman fans?

My opinion on this whole ghastly situation. The linked blog post contains some spoilers about the GO3 TV episode:

https://thefictionphial.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/terry-pratchett-go3-and-the-nice-and-accurate-prophecies-of-agnes-nutter-witch

Just wondering if that note at the end about the publishers, "in their infinite wisdom", making it with a "smooth" cover as opposed to a textured cover is supposed to mean something specific? "In their infinite wisdom" sort of seems like a subtle dig to me? It may not be at all. I was mostly curious about why they took the time to write an entire note about the book's texture and used that specific wording.

The Bolt-on Collection – Discworld Collector’s Library

I came across this while looking through his page to see if there was a better-looking copy of 'The Veldt,' and I was absolutely baffled. When I went looking via Google, I couldn't find anything. Now, it's perfectly plausible I'm a terrible Google-r and one of you will find it immediately, but I couldn't, and I was hoping someone would be able to or, at the very least, know anything about it???

Brave New Worlds Goodreads Link