The Thames is a Filthy Beast

March 23, 2013 2:17 PM

Down to a Sunless Sea - a new short story by Neil Gaiman published by The Guardian as part of their series of Water stories.
posted by Artw (6 comments total)

One of many stories written with that title, the earliest to my knowledge being written, for the most part, by the wife of Cordwainer Smith from a fragment she found after his death.
posted by y2karl at 4:35 PM on March 23, 2013 [2 favorites]

Thanks, Artw. And thanks, y2karl (1,232,128 книг!)
posted by fredludd at 8:06 PM on March 23, 2013

At first I was disappointed to see it's really a short short story. And then it escalated fast to a whole new level of creepy. Good find, ArtW.
posted by whatzit at 11:52 PM on March 23, 2013

Hold Me is 99 cents on Comixology right now - one of the finest creepy stories that he's done IMHO.
posted by Artw at 7:03 AM on March 24, 2013

Listen to Benedict Cumberbatch sing in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
posted by homunculus at 1:06 PM on March 24, 2013

I generally like Neil Gaiman, but I didn't care for this.

If it didn't have Gaiman's name associated with it, people would find it workmanlike, but generally unremarkable.
posted by markkraft at 3:00 AM on March 25, 2013 [1 favorite]