The twelve months have to pass the time somehow, so they tell each other stories. Shadow travels to Scotland in vain, but once found by the gods, they will not leave him alone. If you wander into a party where there are beautiful girls, ask them where they came from. With the virtuosity expected of him, easily switching between absurd, humorous and morbid moods, Neil Gaiman presents in short stories and poems the world that only he sees on the edge of reality.