Black Dog
short fiction 2015 American Gods / Anansi Boys
Record
| First published | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | short fiction |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781472235442 |
Synopsis
Some three years after American Gods and a year after The Monarch of the Glen, Shadow Moon, travelling in England, stops at a pub in a village of the Peak District, where he hears the local legend of a ghostly black dog that appears out of the darkness before you die. With nowhere else to stay, he accepts a room from an older couple, Moira and Ollie; on the walk home Ollie collapses, convinced the black dog has followed him, and Shadow stays on to help Moira care for him. As he learns more about the couple and their past, the village's history is unearthed and the folklore of Black Shuck turns out to be far from idle. First published in Gaiman's collection Trigger Warning (2015) and later reissued on its own as an illustrated edition.
Where it sits
- Universe: American Gods / Anansi Boys
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Neil Gaiman
Notes
- Direct sequel short story following Shadow Moon, set 1 year after The Monarch of the Glen, in Derbyshire's Peak District. First published in the collection Trigger Warning.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within American Gods / Anansi Boys (standalone work): position 4 of 4: previous Anansi Boys (2005)
Sources
- American Gods (Wikipedia)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dog_(short_story)
- Headline (publisher description)
- The Millions (essay on Gaiman's novellas)
- Writing Atlas (story summary)
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