About the book: 2013 / A captivating fairy tale-myth from the famous author of The Sons of Anansi and American Gods. A brilliantly told story of a lonely “bookish” boy, whose name the reader never learns, but in whom the features of Neil Gaiman himself are unmistakably discerned. A walk through the farms of Sussex leads the hero to the house of the ancient gods playing at people, and from that moment the fabric of the familiar world is torn and turns inside out, and creatures of the other world crawl through the hole - so strange and terrible that they are impossible to imagine.