referentialist 's review for:

M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

4.0

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These stories are exactly what I would've wanted to read when I was younger, when I wanted something chilling or spooky but not as heavy as Poe or Lovecraft. The final story, which ended up as a chapter in The Graveyard Book, works better in that context but is still good as a stand-alone. Gaiman has such a gift for tapping into the archetypal without it (almost) ever being tired or trite.