Dreaming Out Loud

Selected Shorts | Jan 11, 2018
Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman hosts a program featuring two of his own stories and a classic by John Collier.  The title says it all in “When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11¼,” read by “Criminal Minds” star Kirsten Vangness.  Gaiman himself reads John Collier’s eerie “Evening Primrose,” about a secret society that inhabits a large department store.  And we finish with another Gaiman, “July Tale,” in which a lovesick husband builds an igloo out of books.  Gaiman reads.  

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