A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night . . .

Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams--and nightmares . . .

In a Hugo Award-winning story, a great detective must solve a most unsettling royal murder in a strangely altered Victorian England . . .

These marvelous creations and more showcase the unparalleled invention and storytelling brilliance--and the terrifyingly dark and entertaining wit--of the incomparable Neil Gaiman. By turns delightful, disturbing, and diverting, "Fragile Things" is a gift of literary enchantment from one of the most original writers of our time.

Contents:
A Study in Emerald (2003)
Bitter Grounds (2003)
Closing Time (2003)
Diseasemaker's Croup (2002)
Feeders and Eaters (2002)
Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot (1998)
Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire (2004)
Going Wodwo (2002) poem
Goliath (1998)
Good Boys Deserve Favours (1995)
Harlequin Valentine (1999)
How Do You Think It Feels? (1998)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2006)
In the End (1996)
Instructions (2000) poem
Inventing Aladdin (2003) poem
Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story (1999)
Locks (1999) poem
My Life (2002) poem
October in the Chair (2002)
Other People (2001)
Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky (2002)
Strange Little Girls (2001)
Sunbird (2005)
The Day the Saucers Came (2006) poem
The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch (1998)
The Fairy Reel (2004) poem
The Flints of Memory Lane (1997)
The Hidden Chamber (2005) poem
The Monarch of the Glen (2003)
The Problem of Susan (2004)