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    <![CDATA[<p> Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. </p> <p> Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers&#8212;but always embrace the unexpected: </p> &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; <p> These eleven stories illuminate the real and the fantastic, and will be welcomed with great joy by Neil Gaiman's many fans as well as by readers coming to his work for the first time. </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p> Stories to delight, enchant, and surprise you. </p> <p> Bestselling author and master storyteller Neil Gaiman here presents a breathtaking collection of tales that may chill or amuse readers&#8212;but always embrace the unexpected: </p> &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;A teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls finds himself at a rather unusual party.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;A stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; <p> These eleven stories illuminate the real and the fantastic, and will be welcomed with great joy by Neil Gaiman's many fans as well as by readers coming to his work for the first time. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of stories based not on a theme or characters, but on the author's opinion of age appropriateness. All are at least good, but none are particularly memorable or striking. Some of them are reprints from earlier collections and it also contains a vignette from the then-to-be-released <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6746355.The_Graveyard_Book" title="The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman">The Graveyard Book</a>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76032994">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There were a couple stories that I just plain did not get.  Other stories were just a tad bit too creepy or weird for my liking.  But there were a couple that I enjoyed reading or thought were clever, and that is why it got this rating.  I especially loved the story, &quot;Chivalry&quot; and thought...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54725738">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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