A Study in Emerald Audiobook

Quotes

• “Gaiman writes in different registers: comedy, satire, pastiche, deadpan, lyrical or whimsical, but almost invariably dark. It all depends on whichever sooty, fantastic spirit drops down the chimney of his Minneapolis writing room on any given day.”

  — Washington Post on Fragile Things

• “Words, when they’re as well-chosen and deftly arranged as those in this book, can perform miracles of strength, staying with their audience long after the breath and ink that gave them birth have vanished.”

  — Seattle Times on Fragile Things

• “Confirms Gaiman’s reputation as an ingenious teller of sinister tales, whose whimsical and fine writing, at its best, equals…Edgar Allan Poe.”

  — Observer (London) on Fragile Things

• “Those with a taste for inventive idiosyncrasy will find themselves amply rewarded.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle on Fragile Things

• “Noteworthy selections in this undeniably exceptional collection include the Hugo Award–winning ‘A Study in Emerald,’ which deftly blends Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s late-nineteenth-century England with gruesome Lovecraftian horror…Gaiman is a true master.”

  — Barnes & Noble, editorial review, on Fragile Things