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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/02/2026

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

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.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/07/2024

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

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.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/07/2024

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.

An astonishingly ugly car in a pretty little town.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 02/07/2024

He wouldn't murder you. Almost definitely.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 29/06/2024

Like this, you mean? 64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3j5...

Hey would it be all right if I leave you to sleep? Beside a photo of Neil Gaiman about 20 years ago.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 26/06/2024

2018 King Neptune at the Coney Island Parade...

Bearded author as King Neptune at 2018 Coney Island Parade, holding small boy with a crown.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 24/06/2024

You walk over to the shelf with the books on and you sign them. Then you walk away.

Three just-signed Neil Gaiman books in jfk Terminal 4.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 16/06/2024

Today's text exchange. They stopped replying after the last one.

Me: Can we kill the guests? Not all of them, obviously. Just occasionally to keep it interesting.
Scambot: This is a remote part-time job. Our main job is to improve the ranking and visibility of our hotel. If you are interested, I can give you more information, okay?
Me: So we don't get to kill the guests personally? Can we kill them remotely?
Scambot: Are you interested in this job?
Me: Only if it involves murdering the hotel guests. Like I say, not all of them. We must not be greedy. Right?

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 08/06/2024

I was about to say the same thing. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbug_...

6 Classical pyramid shaped black and white striped humbugs.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 07/06/2024

From Jules Feiffer long ago. Nothing changes...

Jules Feiffer cartoon in which the Emperor's New Clothes is given political spin, and the people choose not to believe their eyes.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 05/06/2024

Things I did not know about my dog until tonight: He eats bear shit.

A dog not filmed in the action of eating bear shit.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 29/05/2024

My job today is secret, but here is a clue:

A Charles Vess drawing of a man with his back to us staring at three women.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 27/05/2024

I loved her book of essays. I'd never heard of her and then I was sent a copy of Lulu On Hollywood, and I fell in love with the writing. Then i discovered what she had looked like, which was like she existed now.

An elderly Louise Brooks in front of a photo of herself as a silent movie star.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 25/05/2024

So the question is, is the Black Orchid I did for DC in 1988/89 in any mysterious or possible way related to the DC VERTIGO Black Orchid comic from the early 90s?

Dave McKean covers for Black Orchid Comics from DC Comics (1993)

Dave McKean Black Orchid comics from 1998/9 for DC Comics

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 21/05/2024

The Authors League Fund. It's been an honour to be a part of it for a decade now. authorsleaguefund.org

I serve on the Board of Directors of the Authors League Fund, which helps career writers in financial need. As an emergency fund, we provide non-taxable cash support for rent, utilities, groceries, medical bills, and other pressing needs. We have been doing this work since 1917, helping thousands of professional writers across the US. If you become aware of a writer who might benefit from our support, please send them our way: www.authorsleaguefund.org. Applications are confidential and handled quickly and with respect.

We help a broad range of writers: authors, journalists, critics, essayists, poets, short story writers, dramatists, and—recently added—graphic novelists and librettists. We have a special focus on health emergencies and writers in retirement, and hope you will keep us in mind if you learn of a friend, colleague, or client who is struggling.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 19/05/2024

I own this image of Gorey's, from a 1973 National Lampoon... I don't know why he didn't turn the ends of stories that followed into a book.

Eight assorted living characters and one dead one (under a newspaper) brandish implements at an inn sign for The Happy Ending and a cat. An illustration by Edward Gorey.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 11/05/2024

I think it's finishing for the night....

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 11/05/2024

The strangest of night skies. Thank you solar flare.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 25/04/2024

Dead Boy Detectives is now up on Netflix, to lovely reviews.

two dead boys look through one magnifying glass. They are skulls inside the magnifying glass circle. Text: A NETFLIX SERIES DEAD BOY DETECTIVES Only on Netflix NOW PLAYING

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 18/04/2024

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 14/04/2024

From a late night dogwalk: trees and sky.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 14/04/2024

I was wondering if they had counted all 787,777 of them before the penny dropped.

Headline under a picture of a plane: Boeing whistleblower alleges structural flaws in 787, 777 jets

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 13/04/2024

I'm astonished at how many pieces have no or token bids... comics.ha.com/itm/original...

Ornate text saying you aren't my mother! with beetles crawling away from it, facing a drawing of the other mother forcing Coraline into a closet. Drawn by Jill Thompson.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 12/04/2024

For Coraline fans and for Jill Thompson fans. Her art from the Neil Gaiman colouring book is up for auction: comics.ha.com/c/search/res...

A page from the Neil Gaiman Colouring book showing Coraline meeting the three ghost children with buttons for eyes.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 11/04/2024

I'm not saying Dead Boy Detectives will be your new favourite TV show. I'm just saying... Actually, it may very well be your new favourite show. Who am I trying to kid?

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 31/03/2024

Savage Sword of Conan 5. Happy Easter. May you drink the blood of your vultures.

Conan crucified with two friendly vultures and a sky skull. Art by Boris Vallejo.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 29/03/2024

Heathrow Terminal 3. I surreptitiously ninja signed all the books I'd written including the Good Omenses on the shelf below.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 13/03/2024

From my point of view, it wasn't about George's thesis, it was about Wanda's rebuttal:

A voice off (George's): It's like uh Gender isn't something you can pick and choose as uh far as Gods are concerned.
Wanda, a trans woman, replies: Well, that's something the Gods can take and stuff up their sacred recta. I know what I am.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 13/03/2024

I accidentally grew a beard for the first time since 2020. Nobody warned me they itch under masks.

A hairy author in an airport with a mask on ...

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 10/03/2024

On Thursday morning my dog was startled by a noise and took off into the woods. 3 days 11 hrs later, during a sleet storm, he came home. I'd not known how stressed I was until he slept by my bed. I lay down on the floor and hugged him, and fell immediately and exhaustedly asleep beside him.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 05/03/2024

Out in 3 weeks. Pre-order it now wherever you get your books:

The cover of Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits. A quote from George RR Martin tells us that Harlan was not just a great fantasist and/or SF writer, he was a great writer period.

Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits, a retro cover with a faceless man and Greatest Hits where his face should be. On sale 3/26/24

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 04/03/2024

Spot on: m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91x...

Panther science fiction: Norman Spinrad; The Iron Dream. A flash proclaims it Adolf Hitler's Hugo Award winning SF novel. A futuristic Hitler on a motorbike, with a giant silver phallic rocket (?) behind him rides in front of a huge red swastika, in a parody of 1970s SF covers.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 27/02/2024

Oops. The Linktree for the illustrated Norse Mythology didn't post. linktr.ee/norsemythology

two books -- Norton and Bloomsbury editions. The Bloomsbury has Thor on the cover, the Norton shows Fenris Wolf.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 27/02/2024

I've been a fan of @levi_pinfold's art for a long time now, and was thrilled when he agreed to create an illustrated version of my book Norse Mythology. It's out US & UK on Nov 12th. Here's a linktree, or just tell your local bookshop you want a copy. (You DO want a copy. Trust me.)

Two editions of Norse Mythology, one with Thor, one with Fenris Wolf on the cover

Fenris Wolf bigger than the mind can hold

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 27/02/2024

Sometimes you aren't quite sure how you took a photo; you just know you couldn't reproduce it intentionally at gunpoint.

A big dog out for a walk at night. The dog might be transforming into something entirely other.

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 24/02/2024

Despite the vending machines at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, I'm the only person I've seen so far in a mask. Not as in, I'm in a minority, as in "this is weird, it's just me then".

A vending machine. On the aide is written: Travel safe and clean, get your masks and sanitizers here.

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