Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Neil Gaiman xiii
Chapter 1 We Were Told 1
Chapter 2 Strange Relations 17
Chapter 3 Faster Than a Speeding Bullet 29
Chapter 4 Death as a Lifestyle 35
Chapter 5 Pigeon Dinner with a Slice of Watermelon 39
Chapter 6 The First One's Always Free 49
Chapter 7 The Face Behind the Mask 65
Chapter 8 The Wind Took Away His Name 73
Chapter 9 Being Invisible 81
Chapter 10 Targets of Opportunity 89
Chapter 11 Patricide by Proxy 103
Chapter 12 Discovering Words, Worlds, and Estrogen 115
Chapter 13 The God Thing 131
Chapter 14 The Weed of Evil Bears Strange Fruit 145
Chapter 15 The God Thing, Redux 155
Chapter 16 Blood in the Street 169
Chapter 17 When the Light at the End of the Tunnel Isn't a Train (For a Change) 183
Chapter 18 The Big Con 207
Chapter 19 God, Death, and Harlan Ellison 223
Chapter 20 An Unexpected Journey to Toon-Town 233
Chapter 21 Who Ya Gonna Call? 249
Chapter 22 Captain, My Captain 269
Chapter 23 Into the Zone 279
Chapter 24 Blowing Up the World 285
Chapter 25 Things I Learned Dancing with the Fatman 295
Chapter 26 Paging Jessica Fletcher 303
Chapter 27 Boarding Babylon 323
Chapter 28 The Christmas Ambush 333
Chapter 29 Swingin' with Spider-Man 355
Chapter 30 Lost in the Tall Grass with Jeremiah 367
Chapter 31 What Was I Thinking? 389
Chapter 32 Being Superman 407
Chapter 33 The Truth Unearthed 413
Chapter 34 Selah 433
Epilogue 441
