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[[File:NeilGaiman-755833_1356.jpg|frame|Neil "Scary Trousers" Gaiman, master of modern horror<ref>epithet and nickname given by [[Alan Moore]]</ref>]]
{{quote|''Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.''
|''[[The Sandman]]''}}
A contemporary British writer of stories. Of all known kinds.
He's especially famous for his [[Urban Fantasy]] works, including the renowned ''[[The Sandman]]'' comic series, which was the first (and only) work in its medium to win a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story <ref> To prevent it happening again, they changed the rules so that comic books had to be relegated to their own special category, and couldn't be judged alongside prose works</ref>. Two of his novels, ''[[Stardust (
A masterful storyteller, he excels at building believable, yet fantastic settings for his stories. His works are marked by extensive use of mythological references and symbolism, often times in "modern" settings. Also a notable [[One of Us]], and despite his work's breathtaking popularity, he has remained remarkably humble and personable, managing to remain faintly bemused every time he finds hundreds of people waiting for him to sign their books or whatnot. Also, he's a [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013065040/http://media.whosay.com/6734/6734_la.jpg highly respectable marsh-wiggle] with a ''very'' [[Nice Hat]]. [[Adorkable]]? Quite.
Gaiman has some affection for [[Canon Defilement]]- and is living proof that this particularly negative [[Tropes Are Tools|trope isn't bad]]. He described ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120423074536/http://www.holycow.com/dreaming/stories/snow-glass-apples/ Snow, Glass, Apples],'' a [[Perspective Flip]] of "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (
[[Stephen King]] thinks [[Neil Gaiman]] may well be the greatest storyteller alive today, and has said so publicly. Considering this is [[Stephen King]] talking, that's saying something.
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He's married to [[Amanda Palmer]] of The Dresden Dolls. He has a [http://twitter.com/#!/neilhimself Twitter account] and a [http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/ Tumblr blog].
Sung a song about Jeanne d'Arc with [[
He once delivered [http://vimeo.com/42372767 an awe-inspiring (and quite hilarious) commencement speech] to the 2012 graduates of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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* [[Adam Westing]]:
** Specifically, his guest appearance on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in 2011 where he reveals {{spoiler|the whole plot was a scam for him to become an NYT bestseller, he can't read, and he's not even British!}}.
** In the Simpsons Coraline parody "Coralisa," he voices Lisa's cat Snowball. While Snowball sounds wise when talking about mysterious doors and families, he gets distracted when Lisa turns on her flashlight. "Shiiiiiiiiiiiny!"
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: He got a star-making gig at DC Comics because Alan Moore recommended him for the [[Darker and Edgier]] reboots of Silver Age heroes like Black Orchid and Sandman.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Neil has more than a few remarks about haters, life, and writing. He's joked that for season 2 of ''[[Good Omens (TV series)|Good Omens]]'', David Tennant would be replaced by several Fennec foxes.
* [[Digital Piracy Is Okay]]
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: In ''The Art of Asking'', Amanda confirms that Neil was this during their courtship. She wasn't sure how their relationship would work out given the age differences, and that in the book world he's a celebrity while at the time she was an underground musician. When he asked her to marry him, Neil agreed to all her conditions: it would be an open marriage, they didn't need kids, and she wouldn't be a wife.
* [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]]
* [[Hot Dad]]
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: One of his short stories, "The Black Cat," was inspired by the many strays that he and his family would adopt. The namesake cat was actually real, though he did find a forever home and we hope isn't getting into more fights.
* [[Messy Hair]]
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]
* [[Not a Morning Person]]: Neil jokes that in addition to his nameless cameo in the [[Diana Wynne Jones]] novel ''Deep Secret'', part of [[The Magids]] duology, Nick's zombielike morning state was based on his before Neil gets any caffeine.
* [[One of Us]]
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: He explained in his "Make Good Art" speech that this was how he got writing gigs. When freelancing, he would lie that he wrote or so-and-so publications, then would write for them for real. That way it would be true eventually and he could claim to be "chronologically challenged". Neil advises not doing this in the day and age of the Internet, because fact-checking is more common.
* [[Running the Asylum]]
* [[Sesame Street Cred]]: He guest starred as himself in an episode of ''[[Arthur]]''.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]
* [[All Myths Are True]]
* [[Back
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]
* [[Buffy-Speak]]
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* [[Deconstruction Crossover]]
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]
* [[Did We Just Have Tea
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]
* [[Fairy Tale]]
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[The Sandman]]'', ''Death: The High Cost of Living'', ''Death: The Time of Your Life'', ''Sandman: the Dream Hunters'' (a short story illustrated by [[Yoshitaka Amano]]), and ''The Sandman: Endless Nights''.
* ''[[
* One issue of ''[[
* ''Violent Cases''
* ''Mr. Punch: The Tragical Comedy or the Comical Tragedy''
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* ''Signal to Noise''
* ''The Case in the Departure of Miss Finch'': Began as a short story.
* ''[[
* ''Eternals''
* ''[[
* ''[[Metamorpho
* Gaiman also came up with the concept that Tekno Comix eventually turned into a small line of inter-linked titles. The original pitch differed from the end result in a number of respects, to Gaiman's displeasure.
* Wrote the story "Wordsworth" for the ''[[Clive Barker]]'s [[Hellraiser]]'' comic series; it was recently republished in the short stories collection ''Hellbound Hearts''.
* ''Goliath'', a ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' comic.
== Novels ==
* ''[[Neverwhere]]''
* ''[[Stardust (
* ''[[
* ''[[Coraline (
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Interworld]]'', in collaboration with Michael Reaves
* ''[[
* ''[[Literature/Odd And The Frost Giants|Odd And The Frost Giants]]''
* ''[[Mirror Mask]]'' - the novelization
* ''Norse Mythology'' ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: his re-telling of [[Norse Mythology]], inspired ''only'' the source material, with nothing made up by Gaiman.)
== Short story anthologies ==
* ''Smoke & Mirrors''
* ''Angels & Visitations''
* ''[[Fragile Things]]''
* ''M is for Magic''
* ''How to Talk to Girls at Parties''
== Picture books ==
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* ''Crazy Hair''
* ''Instructions''
== Films ==
* ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' (he wrote the [[Woolseyism|Woolseyist]] script)
* ''[[Stardust (
* ''[[Beowulf (
* ''[[Coraline (
* ''[[Mirror Mask]]''
* ''Death: The High Cost of Living''. (In "[[Development Hell|development]]", but IMDb puts its release in 2013.
* ''[[
* He has written an episode for the 2011 series of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E04 The Doctor's Wife|The Doctor's Wife]]".
▲== Live Action TV ==
*
** Especially notable as the ''only'' episode of the show not written by J. Michael Straczynski after season two.
** The Gaim, one of the alien races in ''Babylon Five'', is named for him. And just to hammer the homage further, they all strongly resemble [[The Sandman|Dream Of The Endless]].
* ''[[Neverwhere]]''.
* ''[[
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== Film ==
* Provided the voice for Albert, butler to Bluntman and Chronic, in the 2013 animated [[View Askewniverse]] film, ''[[Jay & Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie!]]''
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