It’s a simple fact: Vampires are hot. And, because of this, the literary world has gifted us with endless and timeless classics about the undead. We’ve got Dracula, Thomas Raith, Matthew Clairmont, Edward Cullen — there’s even Bunnicula! Spooky season would not be complete without the pale, cold-as-ice bloodsuckers that we know and love, which […]

Neil Gaiman is a remarkably affable fellow. Even a few minutes after finishing signing several hundred books, even several minutes before heading out onstage in front of hundreds of fans, he’ll sit down on a couch next to you to talk about stories: how we tell them, and why they mean so much to us. […]

Novels tend to get all the attention. Sure, they can absorb us for long periods of time, but short stories are often more challenging to write, because writers have much less room to develop a setting and characters or outline a plot. There are many anthologies of great stories by multiple writers—but those who can create enough successful short […]

Neil Gaiman fans, rejoice! We have exciting news to tide us over to March, when that long-gestating Starz adaptation of American Gods begins shooting: Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories, a four-part TV series adapting some of Gaiman’s shorter fiction is scheduled to start filming in November to air on Sky Arts, a UK satellite channel. We don’t […]

To capture the essence of Neil Gaiman, you have first to imagine him seated at a typewriter on a coal-black steam engine bound for nowhere. He glances at his pocket watch and gives Amanda Palmer a knowing look, for he has made a deal with someone—not the devil; nothing is that easy in a Gaiman […]