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The selections in
The Neil Gaiman Reader were chosen neither by an outside editor nor by Gaiman himself, as he did with his earlier collections. Instead, apparently, the book was edited by the internet. In 2019, Gaiman invited his readers to name their three favorite Gaiman stories, and the result – from nearly 6,000 responses, we are told – was this selection of 52 short pieces, ranging from short sketches to major novellas, supplemented by five excerpts from novels. It probably says something about Gaiman’s popularity that so many readers would be familiar with his short fiction, but then his short fiction has been more widely visible than almost anyone else’s over the last quarter century or so (in addition to appearances in earlier collections, some 15 of these stories have been published in standalone chapbooks). Fortunately, the result is as varied and rewarding as if Gaiman himself