Fans of Neil Gaiman will want to jump on this: Humble Bundle just released a new bundle that features a lot of rare Neil Gaiman books, including an unfinished graphic novel, older books never republished and collections of short stories, essays and poems.
Even better, to get all this great rare material from Gaiman won't cost you much: in fact, you can name your own price and get five books free, including Adventures in the Dream Trade (essays, poems and postings from the original American Gods blog), Gods & Tulips (which features a controversial speech by Gaiman from 1993), Free Speeches (which includes speeches by Gaiman, Frank Miller and others), the 24-hour comic Being An Account of Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolous, and Angels & Visitations (collection of nonfiction, poetry and prose).
Of course, the good stuff comes if you pay even more. If you choose to pay $15 or more, you get additional titles, including the never-before-republished Ghastly Beyond Belief comic book, the Babylon 5 script for "Day of the Dead," An Honest Answer & Other Stories (a collaboration with Dave McKean and Bryan Talbot) and Feeders, Eaters & Other Stories (which includes a comic by Alan Moore).
But wait, there's more! For $19.40 or more, you also get the lost and unfinished graphic novel that Gaiman did with Michael Zulli, Sweeney Todd & Other Stories. There's also a collection of comics by and about him called Neil Dreams, as well as the controversial '80s comic Gaiman did with Moore, Seven Deadly Sins. Finally, the $19.40 price point gets you Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament, a comics anthology featuring the work of Moore, McKean and Dave Gibbons.
Of course, there are even more rewards for those who pay $15 over that, including Gaiman's first published book, all about rock band Duran Duran: this thing is so rare that traders are paying around $4,500 for it. There's also a never-before-printed short story, poems by Neil and his daughter, and an out-of-print book of short stories, essays and poems.
Perhaps most impressive about this bundle is that proceeds go to a charity close to Gaiman's heart: The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, an organization that has fought censorship in comics since 1986.
You can grab all of this and more from Humble Bundle's website. But act now, because this bundle ends on Sept. 23. However, Humble Bundle plans on adding more books to the bundle on Sept. 16.
Humble Bundle packages digital creations that sell, above a certain minimum, at a price determined by the purchaser, with the money benefiting a charity of the author's choice. Generally, the more a purchaser is willing to pay, the more offerings there are in the digital package.
Photo: Neil Gaiman
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