Galvanised by Gaiman's prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are irresistible forces for modern readers and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open fire on a freezing, starlit night. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the page – irascible, visceral, playful, passionate – and the tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds delves into the exploits. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling – from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. Bestselling and much loved author Neil Gaiman, whose novel American Gods has been adapted into a major television series, brings vividly to life the stories of Norse mythology that have inspired his own extraordinary writing in this number one Sunday Times bestseller. Templates from African mythology are borrowed by Gaiman to relay some of the earliest myths of Dream as the fictionalized Kaickul, an amalgam of many African cultures’ ideas of how gods work in tandem with nature and humanity.
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