Neil Gaiman
3) Coraline
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Having already appropriated Odin and Loki for his novel American Gods, Gaiman turns his restless imagination to a retelling of Norse folklore (a youthful interest of his). He begins by introducing us to the three main mythological figures: Odin, the highest and oldest of the gods; his son, Thor, who makes up in brawn what he lacks in brains; and Loki, offspring of giants and a wily trickster. In a series of stories, we learn how Thor acquired his...
7) Chu's day
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 340L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sniffly little panda worries that his enormous sneezes will be disruptive when his mother takes him to a dusty library and his father takes him to a diner where other customers use plenty of pepper.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
66 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword, and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future -- and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 430L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chu and his family are going to the beach. Chu is excited. He will get to play in the sand and wade in the water. But what will happen if Chu sneezes at the beach? And what will happen if he doesn't?"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (80 pages) : chiefly color illustrations
Language
English
Description
From Hugo, Eisner, Newbery, Harvey, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula award-winning author Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (The Sandman, The Giver), Scott Hampton (American Gods), and Paul Chadwick (Concrete) comes a graphic novel adaptations of the short stories and poems: The Problem of Susan, October in the Chair, Locks, and The Day the Saucers Came.
Two stories and two poems. All wondrous and imaginative about the tales we tell and...
Author
Language
English
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (92 pages) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
When a member of the German royal family is murdered in London, Sherlock Holmes and his new partner are brought in to investigate, leading the two detectives from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the Lovecraftian Queen Victoria's palace.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : chiefly color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war.
16) Likely stories
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color)
Language
English
Description
Presents an anthology of four graphic novel stories featuring dark fantasy and imaginatively linked events, including a bizarre venereal disease, a man obsessed with a magazine skin model, a creepy woman who eats raw meat, and a ghost story within a story.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : chiefly color illustrations
Language
English
Description
The man called Shadow Moon gets out of prison, hoping to get back to his beloved wife, only to meet the mysterious Mr. Wednesday on the plane, who employs him as his bodyguard. Suddenly, Shadow is trapped in a deadly world of ghosts of the past and the looming threat of a war between gods old and new.
18) Stardust
Author
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. He has fallen in love with beautiful Victoria Forester and in order to win her hand, he must retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to her. Young adult.
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living...
Author
Language
English
Description
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013--as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of American gods.