“They made me feel like they were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't ... The slim novel, Gaiman's first book for adults since 2005's “Anansi Boys,” traffics in childhood fears and primal forces the way the Brothers Grimm did ...

Neil Gaiman, master of the modern myth, returns with “The Ocean at the End of the Lane,” his first novel for adults in eight years. Much like his previous books, Gaiman's new tale builds an arresting tension between the imaginative storyscape of fairy ...