Mystery satire sex horror poetic prose....If you have enjoyed John Crowley s Little Big or Stephen King s The Stand or the urbane horror fiction of Jonathan Carroll...then American Gods arrives just in time. --Washington Post Dark fun and nourishing to the soul. --Michael Chabon author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay It has been a decade since #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman (Sandman Anansi Boys The Graveyard Book) rocked the literary world with American Gods--his breathtaking tale of the war on Earth between old gods and new. For those who have yet to experience Gaiman s bestselling tour de force--a novel USA Today called a powerful searing force that makes readers confront what is real and what is not --and for those eager to enter this astonishing world again comes the Author s Preferred Text 10th Anniversary Edition. Winner of the Hugo Nebula Locus and Bram Stoker Awards with a special introduction by the author this is American Gods as Neil Gaiman always meant it to be.