In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning 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, exclusive to this collection.
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days, and in Chicago, the gangster Al Capone was tightening his grip on bootlegging. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed, forever changing the motion picture industry.
All this and much, much more transpired in the year
Americans attempted and accomplished outsized things—and when the twentieth
century truly became the American century. One Summer transforms it all
into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon
In her now
classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire
Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the
Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded
from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it “a grand
adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and
measures the human spirit across [centuries].” Now the story continues in Written
in My Own Heart’s Blood.
World Made of Hand by James Howard Kunstler
For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what
they thought it would be. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food
is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is
largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but
people aren’t sure. As the heat of summer intensifies, the residents struggle
with the new way of life in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses,
horses working the fields and rivers replenished with fish.
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does
for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading
essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by
janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s
sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away...but an even
more bizarre secret comes to light when Jake’s friend Al, owner of the local
diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent
the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s
storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops,
and cigarette smoke... Finding himself in warmhearted Jodie, Texas, Jake begins
a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey
Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten...and become
heart-stoppingly suspenseful.
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