by Neil Gaiman
First published 2010
A grinning gargoyle guards a secret door. A man wakes to find his dreams have taken over his life. A family clings to the last shreds of hope in a blasted, lifeless world. In Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things," the boundaries between the mundane and the magical blur, revealing the darkness and light that lie at the heart of the human experience. These hypnotic tales, by turns whimsical and chilling, will linger in your mind long after the final page.
Genres: short-stories, literary-fiction, fantasy, horror
Vibes: dark, thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: blurred-reality, unreliable-narrator
Harper