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There were ten tongues within one head
And one went out to fetch some bread,
To feed the living and the dead.

–Old Riddle

Black Dog is a follow-up short fiction written by Neil Gaiman in the story collection, Trigger Warning. It takes place after the events of American Gods (Novel) and The Monarch of the Glen.

Shadow spends time in England with a couple and their ghosts.

Plot[]

The Bar Guest[]

The Gibbet[]

The Cuts[]

The Kiss[]

The Living and the Dead[]

The Riddle[]

Places[]

People[]

Myths[]

Notes and trivia[]

  • In the British Isles, a Black dog is a nocturnal apparition regarded as a portent of death. It is also a metaphor for depression.[1]

References[]

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