Showing results by author "Neil Gaiman" in Contemporary Fiction

Shadow Moon has been on the road a while now, but he can't walk any farther tonight, not with the rain lashing down. Gratefully he heads home with a nice English couple, who offer a box room, hot whisky and local tales. But when the man collapses en route, Shadow realises that something about this place has been left untold. Something ancient, something within the very walls of the village. Something shadowing them all.

Shadow Moon has been away from America for nearly two years. His nights are broken with dangerous dreams. Sometimes he almost believes he doesn't care if he ever returns home. In the Highlands of Scotland, where the sky is pale white and it feels as remote as any place can possibly be, the beautiful and the wealthy gather at a grand old house in the glen. And when the strange local doctor offers him work at the party, Shadow is intrigued.

En midaldrende mand vender tilbage til sin barndomsegn, da han skal til en begravelse. Selvom hans barndomshjem er borte for laengst, drages han mod den gård, der lå forenden af grusvejen, og hvor han som syvårig mødte den mystiske pige Lettie Hempstock, og hendes mor og bedstemor. Han har ikke taenkt på Lettie i årevis, men da han sidder ved dammen (en dam, som hun haevdede, var et ocean) bag den faldefaerdige gamle gård, kommer minderne om hans fortid vaeltende tilbage. Og det er en fortid, der er alt for maerkelig, alt for skraemmende og alt for farlig for en lille dreng.