Neil Gaiman’s writing is so present, so engaging, that it can send spasms of bone-chilling terror through your body and your reaction would still be, “Please sir, I want some more.”
His collection of short stories, “Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances,” summons something that should be accompanied by the theme from “Jaws.” Pop culture references are fitting for a mostly sinister gathering that also includes Sherlock Holmes (“The Case of Death and Honey”), Doctor Who (“Nothing O’Clock”) and “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury.”
The master of the first-person macabre channels Shirley Jackson one minute, Arthur Conan Doyle the next and Edgar Allan Poe overall.
— Sharon Eberson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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