Neil Gaiman

It’s been a while since I've posted anything anywhere, but I didn't want to let any more time go by without thanking everyone for all your kind messages of support over the last year and a half. I've learned firsthand how effective a smear campaign can be, so to be clear: The allegations against me are completely and simply untrue. There are emails, text messages and video evidence that flatly contradict them. These allegations, especially the really salacious ones, have been spread and amplified by people who seemed a lot more interested in outrage and getting clicks on headlines rather than whether things had actually happened or not. (They didn't.)

One thing that's kept me going through all this madness is the conviction that the truth would, eventually, come out. I expected that when the allegations were first made there would be journalism, and that the journalism would take the (mountains of) evidence into account, and was astonished to see how much of the reporting was simply an echo chamber, and how the actual evidence was dismissed or ignored. I was a journalist once, and I have enormous respect for journalists, so I've been hugely heartened by the meticulous fact and evidence-based investigative writing of one particular journalist, whom some of you recently brought to my attention, who writes under the name of TechnoPathology. I’ve had no contact with TechnoPathology. But I’d like to thank them personally for actually looking at the evidence and reporting what they found, which is not what anyone else had done. If you are curious about what they've uncovered so far, the link in this post takes you to really good investigative reporting.

It's been a strange, turbulent and occasionally nightmarish year and a half, but I took my own advice (when things get tough, make good art) and once I was done with making television I went back to doing something else I love even more: writing. I thought it was going to be a fairly short project when I began it, but it's looking like it's going to be the biggest thing I've done since American Gods. It's already much longer than The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and it's barely finished wiping its boots and hanging up its coat. And I spend half of every month being a full-time Dad, and that remains the best bit of my life.

It's a rough time for the world. I look at what's happening on the home front and internationally, and I worry; and I am still convinced there are more good people out there than the other kind. Thank you again to so many of you for your belief in my innocence and your support for my work. It has meant the world to me.

Reporting referenced in my statement: technopathology.substack.com/p/neil-gaima...

You missed episode 6? Your loss.

How did you feel about the changes we made for the Audible Sandman adaptation?

Oh, Nuala and Cluracan. We have waited for so long to have you with us 🩷🪷 this is so sureal. After two years of patiently waiting and anxiety whether they will be in it, it feels so good to know that not only they are real but they have been entrusted to great actors 🩵🩷

But she's so nice.

I got intrigued because I fell in love with a German Shepherd who died too young.

Raising my hand to say yes I am excited!

Paterson Joseph in Neverwhere.

I binged it over a couple of nights recently, it's still great.

Plus Paterson Joseph is hot AF as the Marquis de Carabas.

Only kinda?

Really didn't like the idea of KHB as Death (just the look) , but gave it a chance when I heard you personally approved. Man was i glad to be wrong wrong wrong, she was AWESOME. Every single bit of S1 casting was perfect, can't wait for S2.

How wonderful to see Clive Russell in there! Makes me want to rewatch Neverwhere - although, to be fair, the *existence* of Neverwhere makes me want to rewatch Neverwhere!

Very happy to do it again.

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them for his own amusement. He’s also the inspiration for Shakespeare’s Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Indya Moore (Queen & Slim, Pose, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) plays Wanda, a professional driver and security agent for an exclusive travel firm. Wanda proves herself to be an indispensable guide on an Endless road trip to the waking world. Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) is the voice of Barnabas, the canine companion of the Endless’s Prodigal brother. Barnabas is loyal and loving, but an outspoken cynic. Meaning, he’s both man’s best friend and man’s sharpest critic.

Sandman Season 2. More casting. Are you excited? I'm excited.

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I read Bradbury's HOMECOMING on the new Selected Shorts podcast!
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Not that I know. I mean, you could scan it and blow it up privately.

I trust everyone has been keeping up with these. They always make me smile.

Communiqué from the Tourist Office for the Barrow Downs To all Barrow Wights, A number of incidents have come to our attention involving unprofessional staff behaviour toward visitors. The Tourist Office for the Barrow Downs is therefore issuing this reminder to all Barrow Wights: 1) Visitors on the Barrow Downs are welcome guests. DO NOT KIDNAP them. (This should not need to be said!) 2) While some visitors will be thrilled to see inside your tomb, please avoid any of the following: a) kidnapping (as mentioned above) b) putting visitors in a deep sleep c) changing their clothes to those of ancient kings while asleep d) laying them on an altar with a sword across their necks e) manifesting as an arm with no body attached and walking on your fingers (this is not The Addams Family Experience) f) definitely NO kidnapping 3) Fog: remember, if you intend to use the fog machine, this should be only for effect. Strangers do not to actually get lost.

4) As a supplementary: DO NOT lure visitors with voices in the fog: it will cause alarm. 5) Saying you “weren’t kidnapping them, you just couldn’t work out the control knob on the fog machine” and “I was just trying out my voices” will no longer be accepted as a reason for luring visitors into fog. This contravenes too many Health and Safety Rules. 6) Bear in mind at all times that you have a wealth of interesting historical information to impart. Visitors want to be amazed and entertained. Most do not enjoy kidnapping. 7) “Do not kidnap me” means someone does not want to be kidnapped. Only a few in a few Special Exceptions and on Rare Occasions does “Do not kidnap me” mean “Do kidnap me”.

8) Special Exceptions and Rare Occasions: a) You may kidnap someone if they have filled out a consent form. (This is only applicable on adult role-playing nights.) b) You may put visitors in a deep sleep on adult role-playing nights provided the necessary box is ticked. (You may not tick the box yourself) c) Adorning sleeping guests in ancient king’s clothes on adult role-playing nights is allowed. d) Similarly, laying guests on an altar with a sword across their necks is allowed. e) Severed limbs are allowed to walk during adult role-playing nights. f) Please remember: the safe word is “Tom Bombadil”. Barrow Wights who infringe these rules will face disciplinary action. Three marks on your file will be escalated to me. Yours, Mrs Goldberry. (Img is a 17th C engraving of the Rollright Stones, Devon, handcoloured, depicting standing stones in a field with visitors)

A new bit of Tolkien silliness, as I fight off the blues today. "Communiqué from the Tourist Office for the Barrow Downs" - hope you enjoy, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com et al....

Closer to the patrol car IMO but any Spectrum car would be safer, even with the Mysterons chasing you.

An astonishingly ugly car in a pretty little town.

Today I saw what I suspect to be my first Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle in the wilds of Woodstock.

Now keeping a weather eye out for Mysterons.

A big grey dog in the woods.

He wouldn't murder you. Almost definitely.

Good luck!

[P] Performers there never realize until too late: it is, in fact, the wolf who has set a trap for *you*.