Neil Gaiman Books in Order

Dog-sized mutant rats erupt from London's slums, tearing through vagrants, schoolchildren and commuters while officials dither. Art teacher Harris and a handful of allies must trace the infestation’s source before the city is completely overrun.

Gaiman profiles the pop group Duran Duran during its early rise, tracing the band's beginnings and the musicians behind its success. This nonfiction portrait introduces the members and follows the development of their music and public career.

Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman collect memorable passages from science fiction, fantasy, and horror books and films. Their selections celebrate strange dialogue, extravagant prose, and entertaining absurdities, turning a quotation book into a humorous tour of genre storytelling.

An adult recalls a childhood injury and the strange osteopath who treated it, a man who once attended Al Capone. Fragmented memories of family tension and gangster stories blur together in an unsettling examination of violence and recollection.

Gaiman explores Douglas Adams's career and the creation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This companion follows the work across its different forms, introducing the people, ideas, and mishaps behind Adams's comic universe and other projects.

Short fiction, poetry, humor, essays, and illustrations come together in this early Gaiman miscellany. The pieces move between fantasy, science fiction, detective stories, and nonfiction, offering different approaches to the strange and unsettling rather than one continuous narrative.

An occult ritual meant to capture Death imprisons her brother Dream instead. After escaping decades later, Morpheus seeks his stolen tools of power, confronting supernatural dangers as he begins to restore his realm and reclaim his responsibilities.

After Susan Linden is murdered, she returns as Black Orchid, caught between human memories and an unfamiliar botanical existence. Her search for the truth behind her death carries her from city streets into the Amazon rainforest.

An angel and a demon who enjoy life on Earth try to prevent the approaching Apocalypse. Their plans become complicated when the Antichrist goes missing, leaving an ordinary English boy at the center of a cosmic confrontation.

Rose Walker searches for her missing brother while Dream hunts dreams that have escaped his realm. Their journeys intersect as an unusual danger gathers around Rose, drawing ordinary lives and terrible nightmares into the same unfolding mystery.

Four separate tales explore the reach of dreams through a captive muse, a gathering of cats, Shakespeare's players, and an isolated superhero. Dream and Death appear at the edges of stories about creativity, suffering, and imagined possibilities.

Co-edited by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones, this anthology collects darkly comic, grotesque verse and warped nursery-rhyme-style poems by an array of fantasy and horror writers.

Dream returns to Hell to rescue a woman he once condemned, expecting a confrontation with Lucifer. Instead, a change in Hell's leadership places a dangerous responsibility in his hands and attracts powerful visitors seeking control of the realm.

Dying of cancer, a film director imagines the movie he will never make, about villagers awaiting the end of the world in the year 999. His private creative struggle becomes a meditation on mortality, meaning and unfinished work.

An ancient race of shapeshifters has lived secretly alongside humanity, leaving traces in legends of supernatural monsters. This shared-world anthology brings together different writers to explore the concealed creatures and the uneasy relationships between their world and ours.

Barbie discovers that the vivid kingdom of her dreams is under threat from the Cuckoo. As its dangers reach her waking life, her neighbors become entangled in a struggle involving talking animals, witchcraft, and the power of identity.

Dream crosses paths with emperors, explorers, rulers, and figures from myth in this collection of separate stories. Episodes involving Augustus Caesar, Marco Polo, Orpheus, and others examine how dreams influence ambition, memory, history, and human choices across centuries.

Young Timothy Hunter has the potential to become an extraordinarily powerful magician, but first he must decide whether he wants that life. Four mysterious guides lead him through the history and dangers of magic, making the choice increasingly complicated.

Delirium persuades Dream to help find their missing brother, Destruction, who abandoned his duties long ago. Their search through the waking world brings encounters with immortals and gods, while old family obligations make the journey increasingly difficult.

This second shared-world anthology looks deeper into the origins of the Weerde, shapeshifters hidden throughout human history. Its stories connect their ancient development with changing forms, survival, and the creatures whose presence helped shape humanity's supernatural legends.

Travelers stranded by a storm in reality find shelter at an inn between worlds. Guests from different times and places trade tales of dreaming cities, sea creatures, kings, and funerals while waiting for the disturbance outside to pass.

Accused of treason, the angelic hunter Angela must gather evidence to clear her name. Her search leads her to recruit Spawn as a witness, creating an uneasy alliance while she fights to prove her innocence.

Richard Mayhew helps an injured girl and slips out of ordinary London into a hidden city beneath it. Joining Door's search for answers about her murdered family, he faces dangerous inhabitants while trying to recover his former life.

Lyta Hall blames Dream when her young son disappears and turns to the Furies for vengeance. As these ancient powers enter the Dreaming, Morpheus faces the weight of past actions and a threat reaching deep into his realm.

Writers including Clive Barker, Gene Wolfe, and Barbara Hambly contribute prose stories inspired by Gaiman's Sandman comics. The anthology explores Morpheus, the Endless, and their dream-filled universe through new characters, nightmares, and encounters created by many different storytellers.

Dave McKean's cover artwork for The Sandman is collected alongside commentary from Neil Gaiman and an exclusive Sandman story. The volume presents the images as an art portfolio, showing another view of the series' myths, characters, and atmosphere.

Frightened of growing up, Steven accepts a dare to enter a mysterious showman’s theater. The performance offers far more than entertainment, and escaping its temptations becomes a struggle that forces him to face what he truly fears.

Friends, family, lovers, and rivals gather as the Dreaming responds to the events of the previous volume. This closing collection explores remembrance, change, and the lives touched by Dream, with further stories carrying the series toward its conclusion.

During a Brakiri religious observance aboard Babylon 5, several residents encounter people from their past who have died. Gaiman's script brings these personal reunions into the space station's larger story, exploring grief, unfinished conversations, and the pull of memory.

American tourist Benjamin Lassiter reaches a strange English coastal village and joins two locals for a drink. Their talk of Cthulhu turns an unhappy walking holiday into an increasingly unsettling encounter with the town's unusual inhabitants and hidden secrets.

This collection gathers Gaiman's early comics featuring John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Morpheus, and the Golden Age Sandman. Separate supernatural tales introduce different corners of their worlds, combining eerie encounters with glimpses of the concerns that recur in his later work.

Tristran Thorn promises to fetch a fallen star for the woman he loves and crosses the wall separating his village from Faerie. His search brings him into a magical land where other travelers also have reasons to seek the star.

A shape-changing fox falls in love with a young monk and learns that his life is threatened by a supernatural plot. Seeking help from the lord of dreams, she uses her ingenuity to try to protect the man she loves.

Illustrations from the Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying game present its hidden world of undead predators. This art collection brings together images by several artists and Gaiman's vampire-themed writing, exploring the characters and atmosphere of the game's dark setting.

A stray black cat endures mysterious nightly injuries, while an abandoned girl’s connection to owls brings danger to those who threaten her. Two unsettling tales explore hidden guardians and the consequences of mistaking vulnerability for weakness.

Released from prison after a personal tragedy, Shadow accepts work from the mysterious Mr. Wednesday. Their travels across America draw him into a struggle involving old gods, new beliefs, and powers competing for a place in modern life.

Harlequin gives his heart to a sensible young woman and follows her through the city, expecting a familiar romantic story. Her surprising response unsettles his assumptions in a darkly playful tale about love, freedom and changing roles.

Selected quotations from The Sandman appear alongside illustrations of Morpheus and the other Endless by different artists. This compact companion revisits the series through individual lines and images, offering reflections on dreams, stories, and the lives of its characters.

Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe pose as guides to the Shambles, an imaginary Chicago neighborhood filled with sinister attractions. Their fictional walking tour recommends peculiar landmarks and offers cheerful advice for surviving places where an innocent visit can become dangerous.

Gaiman's American Gods weblog appears alongside essays, short fiction, poetry, and songs in this collection. The pieces offer a view of his creative life through reflections on other writers, assorted imaginative work, and journal entries from a novel's publication.

Coraline discovers a doorway to another version of her home, where attentive parents offer everything she wants. Their welcome conceals a frightening demand, and she must use courage and cleverness to protect herself and the family she left behind.

Two full-cast audio plays adapt Gaiman's short stories for voices. Snow, Glass, Apples retells a familiar fairy tale from a fearful queen's perspective, while Murder Mysteries follows an angel investigating a killing during the creation of the world.

Seven stories give each of the Endless siblings a tale illustrated by a different artist. Moving between haunting, romantic, and disturbing episodes, the collection explores the nature of Dream, Death, Destiny, Desire, Despair, Destruction, and Delirium beyond the main series.

Marvel's familiar heroes are reimagined in the England of Queen Elizabeth I, where powerful outsiders are feared as witchbreeds. Strange weather alarms the court, and its agents investigate disturbances that threaten a world of political intrigue and persecution.

Sherlock Holmes's world meets Lovecraft's cosmic horror in stories by twenty writers, including Gaiman's A Study in Emerald. Detectives and their allies confront murders, curses, and impossible phenomena that test both rational investigation and the limits of human sanity.

Lucy hears wolves inside the walls, but her family refuses to believe her warnings. When the creatures finally emerge and take over the house, she must find the courage to challenge them and reclaim her home.

After his father's death, Charlie Nancy discovers that the embarrassing man was the trickster god Anansi and that he has an unknown brother. Spider's arrival disrupts Charlie's ordinary life, pulling him into family rivalry and a world shaped by myth.

A young girl lives alone among deserted ruins, surrounded by decay and accompanied only by feral animals. This illustrated tale follows her haunting existence in an abandoned world, pairing Neil Gaiman’s text with Dagmara Matuszak’s images.

People living ordinary lives begin to awaken to their identities as the immortal Eternals. As forgotten powers and memories return, they must uncover what happened to them and confront a threat reaching across time and space.

Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary present drafts and the shooting script for their film adaptation of Beowulf. The warrior's confrontation with Grendel appears alongside artwork and commentary explaining how the writers reshaped the old story for the screen.

Joey Harker discovers he can travel between alternate Earths and becomes a target for rival armies of magic and science. Joining other versions of himself, he learns to use his ability in a fight to protect the worlds.

This collection introduces younger readers to Gaiman's short fiction, mixing eerie tales with humor and wonder. Stories such as Troll Bridge, Chivalry, and The Witch's Headstone explore encounters with the unexpected, alongside a poem offering advice for fairy-tale journeys.

A War Child anthology for younger readers, Midnight Feast assembles short fiction, extracts, illustrations, and a Jamie Oliver mini-pizza recipe from prominent children’s writers. Its pieces range through fantasy, comedy, mystery, and spooky adventure.

This anthology collects Marvel comics by British writers including Neil Gaiman, Alan Davis, Mark Millar, Garth Ennis, and Warren Ellis. Its separate tales offer a selection of their approaches to familiar superhero characters across the publisher's comic-book world.

Twelve-year-old Odd flees an endless winter and encounters three animals who are actually Norse gods. With Asgard conquered by Frost Giants, the injured boy must use his wits to help them regain their true forms.

Short stories and poems bring magic, horror and unsettling possibilities into familiar situations. Fairy tales, contemporary encounters and imagined worlds reveal how easily an apparently ordinary life can shift when something strange crosses its boundaries.

Two children and their pet gazelle follow a treasure map into the world beneath their city. Told through the alphabet, their journey brings pirates, monsters and a pressing question about whether they can return safely.

After his family is murdered, a small boy finds refuge in a graveyard and grows up among ghosts. Nobody Owens learns the ways of the dead, but the killer who pursued him still threatens his future.

A poem offers wishes for a newborn girl as she grows towards an independent life. Charles Vess's illustrations accompany hopes for courage, discovery and joy, imagining the adventures and challenges that lie beyond early childhood.

Coraline discovers a door to another home where familiar people have disturbing differences and unexpected intentions. Her adventure appears alongside other stories, gathering strange encounters that move between dark fantasy, humour and the fears beneath ordinary life.

Bonnie notices a man's extraordinary hair, only to learn that it contains creatures, adventures and whole hidden worlds. What begins as a comment about his appearance becomes a journey into a wildly expanding landscape.

Stories and poems move through unsettling encounters, imagined worlds and unexpected turns in familiar lives. Alongside gothic and humorous tales, the collection includes fiction linked to The Matrix and a return to the world of American Gods.

Staged photographs place Amanda Palmer in a succession of imagined deaths, while Neil Gaiman supplies stories around the scenes. The collaboration turns a collection of visual clues into a darkly comic exercise in mystery and invention.

A traveller receives advice for finding a way through an enchanted landscape of gardens, castles and dangerous rivers. The illustrated poem draws on fairy-tale conventions, asking how courage and judgment can help someone return home.

Neil Gaiman selects comics that show the range of graphic storytelling, including journalism, personal narratives and political commentary. Short works and excerpts from longer stories offer different ways for words and images to capture experience.

A search for hidden treasure leads into the Black Mountains, where an otherworldly destination promises more than simple wealth. Family history and concealed motives shape a journey in which the travellers' purpose is not entirely clear.

Nine prose stories from the 2000 AD and Judge Dredd annuals bring together Mega-City One's judges and citizens. Contributors including Neil Gaiman and Dan Abnett explore strange crimes and conflicts within the city's harsh future.

Dream's sister Death steps into human lives in this collection of her solo adventures. Encounters with ordinary people explore mortality, choices and the importance of living, presenting an approachable figure whose responsibilities reach beyond human understanding.

Thirty contemporary ghost stories explore hauntings, restless souls and encounters between the living and the dead. Edited by Paula Guran, the anthology gathers different visions of what may remain after death and how it reaches us.

This anthology brings together stories about witches in many forms, from threatening figures to surprising sources of wonder. Writers including Neil Gaiman and Kelly Link explore magic, its practitioners and the different meanings attached to witchcraft.

Short science-fiction and horror comics from 2000 AD gather stories by Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and other contributors. Compact adventures use strange futures and unexpected twists to reveal dangers hidden inside seemingly straightforward situations.

Chu is a small panda whose sneezes cause enormous trouble, making everyday outings a source of suspense. Visits to a library, diner and circus leave his parents wondering when his tickling nose will finally erupt.

Eleven writers tell eleven adventures featuring different incarnations of the Doctor in this anniversary anthology. Alien enemies and journeys through time offer distinct interpretations of the traveller, with contributions including a story by Neil Gaiman.

A father returns from buying milk with an extraordinary explanation for his delay, involving aliens, pirates and a travelling stegosaurus. His children hear an increasingly improbable adventure in which protecting their breakfast milk remains surprisingly important.

Gaiman's commencement speech offers advice about creativity, mistakes and continuing to work when circumstances are difficult. Designed by Chip Kidd, the book presents encouragement for artists beginning their careers and deciding how to pursue their own ideas.

Horror writers contribute stories to an anthology remembering Rick Hautala, edited by Christopher Golden. This first volume gathers unsettling fiction from different voices, combining a tribute to a fellow writer with encounters shaped by fear and danger.

Returning to his childhood neighbourhood, a man remembers Lettie Hempstock and the strange events surrounding her family's farm. Memories of an apparently ordinary pond open into a story of danger, sacrifice and forces beyond a child's understanding.

Joey Harker and his fellow versions fight to protect parallel worlds from rival powers of magic and science. A mysterious traveller named Acacia Jones brings new possibilities, but her abilities and intentions make trust difficult.

Stories selected by Neil Gaiman introduce creatures that exist beyond the ordinary natural world. Different writers imagine strange beings and encounters, asking what happens when people meet animals and entities that familiar rules cannot explain.

Paranormal investigators, ghost hunters and detectives with unusual abilities confront crimes that ordinary methods cannot always solve. This anthology mixes mystery with supernatural fiction, bringing spells, monsters and psychic puzzles into the search for justice.

Chu worries that the other children will not like him on his first day at school. As classmates explain their special talents, the sneeze-prone panda searches for his own contribution while chalk dust fills the air.

The Marquis de Carabas searches London Below for his missing coat, a possession that matters far beyond its appearance. Reclaiming it means entering dangerous territory, facing an old enemy and accepting help he would rather avoid.

A cross-genre anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois, packed with stories about thieves, con artists, and charming troublemakers. Expect double-crosses, clever escapes, and characters who live by their wits, whether the setting is medieval, futuristic, or somewhere in between.

A trip to the beach turns troublesome when Chu's enormous sneeze splits the sea and leaves animals stranded. The small panda must sneeze again to put things right, but doing so on demand proves surprisingly difficult.

With InterWorld trapped and Acacia missing, an injured Joey Harker searches parallel worlds for allies. The threat of FrostNight could destroy the entire Altiverse, forcing him to recruit other versions of himself and take responsibility for leading them.

The Dead Boy Detectives investigate missing children and discover Free Country, a refuge from adult cruelty where nobody grows old. But the sanctuary is failing, and its need for magically gifted children gives the disappearances a darker purpose.

Before his capture by human occultists, Dream faces a cosmic crisis that could threaten existence itself. This prequel explores the journey that exhausts his power, revealing how a being of such strength becomes vulnerable to imprisonment.

A young queen sets aside her wedding plans to investigate a sleeping curse spreading across a neighbouring kingdom. Travelling with dwarves towards a sleeping princess, she discovers that familiar fairy-tale appearances may conceal a different story.

Short fiction and poems explore unsettling discoveries, strange transformations and threats behind familiar appearances. The collection includes a new Shadow Moon adventure, Black Dog, alongside other stories that move between fantasy, horror and unexpected possibilities.

Caught in heavy rain, Shadow Moon accepts a couple's hospitality in a northern English village. When his host collapses, local stories of a ghostly black dog begin to suggest a danger concealed beneath the welcome.

Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and other DC characters appear in Neil Gaiman’s collected superhero stories. Familiar heroes face unusual mysteries and reckonings, including a farewell to Batman and a magical encounter testing Superman and Green Lantern’s friendship.

Shy teenager Enn follows his more confident friend Vic into a party, hoping to learn how to talk to girls. Their conversations become increasingly strange as the guests reveal that they are far from ordinary.

A street magician rediscovers a steam-powered robot created as a sleeper agent by Henry Phage. Mr. Hero must resist his original purpose and choose how to use his abilities in a world that now needs his help.

Travelling in the Scottish Highlands, Shadow Moon accepts work at a gathering of wealthy guests in a remote house. Troubling dreams and the unexplained interest in his presence suggest that the job carries an unexpected purpose.

Essays, speeches and reflections explore books, artists, dreams and the importance of stories. Gaiman discusses creative work and personal experiences, connecting individual encounters with broader questions about reading, imagination and the place of art in everyday life.

Princess Cinnamon is blind and does not speak, prompting her parents to offer a reward to anyone who can help. After others fail, a fierce tiger arrives at the palace claiming he can teach her.

Mr. Hero's search for his origins becomes more confusing with every new discovery about his body and past. Travelling to Kalighoul, the robot seeks answers about his two heads, missing hand and the identity he can trust.

Norse tales follow Odin, Thor, Loki and their fellow gods through bargains, rivalry and dangerous adventures. From the creation of the worlds towards Ragnarok, the retellings show how courage, cunning and pride shape their fortunes.

Jill Thompson's illustrations turn scenes and characters from Neil Gaiman's children's books into pages for readers to color. Images inspired by Coraline, The Graveyard Book and other stories invite a personal response to their imagined worlds.

Neil Gaiman's speeches, poems and reflections on creativity come together with illustrations by Chris Riddell. The collection considers why reading, imagining and making art matter, encouraging people to create even when circumstances or self-doubt make it difficult.