Mike answers “How old to you have to be to first read it?”

Leonielittman asked this question about Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances:

How old to you have to be to first read it?

Mike There's nothing particularly graphic in it, but there are some stories that are spooky/unsettling, and there some tame allusions to sex, hints of viol…moreThere's nothing particularly graphic in it, but there are some stories that are spooky/unsettling, and there some tame allusions to sex, hints of violence (mostly "off screen"), etc. The stories are written to be unsettling on an existential level, not to be explicit.

A better guide might be whether the reader enjoys it. It plays with a lot of literary and pop culture references, from Gaiman's own books to a variety of world mythologies, to Sherlock Holmes, to Ray Bradbury, to Dr. Who, etc. You wouldn't have to get all of them to enjoy the book (few people can match Gaiman on these things), but someone who would enjoy it would have read (and maybe watched) enough to handle Trigger Warning.(less)

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