{"id":14522,"date":"2021-04-18T10:41:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T05:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2021-03-28T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T07:09:46","slug":"trigger-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2021\/04\/18\/trigger-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigger Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Neil Gaiman <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting. These are stories about those masks, and the people we are underneath them.&#8221; Thus reads the blurb on the back cover. It&#8217;s quite meta, because the book does have a dark theme &#8211; &#8220;Many of these stories end badly for at least one of the people in them. Consider yourself warned&#8221;- and I am reading this after Covid struck! The setting couldn&#8217;t have been worse, or better!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book has 24 stories (including the poems) and they are of different hues. Made richer because of the long introduction, which provides the context to a lot of these stories. There&#8217;s magic, science fiction, twisty fairy tales whose characters you almost know, and yes, ghost stories too! Gaiman also gives in to self-confessed trips of silliness &#8211; &#8220;And weep, like Alexander&#8221; is one such. His own fandom can be seen in a fantastic Sherlock Holmes story, a neat tribute to Ray Bradbury, a Doctor Who tale, and a surreal and profound one for David Bowie as well. There might be more that I might have missed because of a lack of context. Gaiman ends with a story with characters from American Gods. I probably wouldn&#8217;t have gotten that if I hadn&#8217;t watched the show, I need to buy that book! In addition, there are some clever formats too &#8211; A Calendar of Tales has a story for every month, each almost a different genre. Orange is another, a subject&#8217;s responses (no questions) to an investigator&#8217;s questionnaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s common in all of these is the power of imagination, and Gaiman&#8217;s way with words. The class of a storyteller is his\/her ability to transport the reader to a place and time far away, and Gaiman did that for me more than a dozen times in this book. Pick it up, I am sure you will find your own treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"872\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Trigger-Warning-872x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15736 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Trigger-Warning-872x1024.jpg 872w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Trigger-Warning-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Trigger-Warning-768x902.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Trigger-Warning-600x705.jpg 600w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Trigger-Warning.jpg 961w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 872px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 872\/1024;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 stories that showcase the power of imagination. Stories that include magic, science fiction, twisty fairy tales, and ghost stories. And a fair warning &#8211; &#8220;Many of these stories end badly for at least one of the people in them. Consider yourself warned&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6007],"tags":[5625,1224,6374],"class_list":["post-14522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-trigger-warning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15738,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions\/15738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}