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New Humble Bundle is up, and it's for:

Humble Book Bundle Neil Gaiman featuring prose, poetry, and comic book work from the popular sfnal author.

This looks to have a lot of repeats from the previous Neil Gaiman Rarities HB, but it looks like there are two new audiobooks at the top tier, featuring dramatic readings by the author himself of his own work. ETA: and one in the middle. ETA 2: which turns out to be a video recording of a live performance show. But I guess you could rip the audio for portable listening?

Fixed tiers of $1, $8, and $15, no new titles added next week.

Give the gift of Gaiman. Neil's back at Humble with another bundle of joy! This collection is full of great finds for serious N.G. fans, but fantasy lovers, comic nerds, and short story fanatics will all find something to love. Happy Gaimandays to one and all!

Pay $1 or more for Adventures in the Dream Trade (essays, poems, lyrics, and original American Gods blog), Gods & Tulips (controversial 1993 speech, an essay on running signings, and a speech on comics), Free Speeches (speeches by Neil, Frank Miller, and others), Being An Account of the Life and Death of the Emperor Heliogabolous (24 hour comic, written and drawn by Neil), Ghastly Beyond Belief with Kim Newman (Neil’s rare & never republished second book of oddball quotes), A Fall of Stardust with Charles Vess (new Stardust short story & poems, illustrated by Charles Vess), Sculpture Stories with Lisa Snellings (short fiction based on Snellings’ sculpture art), and Blood Monster with Marlene N. O'Connor (rare horror story from the legendary anthology Taboo).

Pay $8 or more to also receive Day of the Dead (fully annotated Babylon 5 script), An Honest Answer & Other Stories (collaboration with Bryan Talbot and Dave McKean), Feeders & Eaters with Mark Buckingham (collaborations with Mark Buckingham, including a comic about Alan Moore), Angels & Visitations (first collection of prose fiction, nonfiction, and poetry), Sweeney Todd & Other Stories with Michael Zulli (Neil’s lost, unfinished, never republished graphic novel with Michael Zulli), Neil Dreams with Rick Veitch (short comics of dreams by and about Neil, done by and with Rick Veitch), Message In A Milk Bottle (never before reprinted short story with a brand new intro), Love, Fishie (poems by Neil & Maddy Gaiman, extremely limited edition), Neverwear: A Portfolio of Stories (collects Neil's sought out – and in many cases, sold out – story & art editions, featuring art by Jim Lee, David Mack, Roman Dirge, Molly Crabapple, Chris Riddell, Olivia, Jouni Koponen, Camilla D'Errico, and more), and the two controversial UK comics anthologies Outrageous Tales From The Old Testament and Seven Deadly Sins, which also feature contributions from Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Dave McKean, Bryan Talbot and more. Also included in this tier is Neil Gaiman: Live at the Aladdin, which captures an unforgettable performance from Neil's 2001 Last Angel tour, and includes dramatic readings from his short fiction and poetry, including stories from his collections Angels & Visitations and Smoke and Mirrors.

Pay $15 or more to receive all of the above plus Duran Duran (Neil’s first and rarest book!), A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff (out of print and collectible book of short fiction, essays, and poems), A Calendar of Tales (brand-new 55 page ebook with art by Paul Roman Martinez), Warning: Contains Language (Neil's first audio performance disc from 1995, featuring dramatic readings of stories and poems accompanied by music from Dave McKean and the Flash Girls), and Speaking in Tongues (dramatic readings from 2004 including the 41 minute tour-de-force "The Facts In The Case of the Departure of Miss Finch").

Last week's Humble Book Bundle Science + Discovery presented by Make: has added what looks like two more titles to the middle tier, for home experiments.

Bundle of Holding is offering a hybrid RPG gamebook & comic book bundle for the Valiant Universe, with the gaming based on the company's popular superhero comics. You get at least 2 gamebooks and a whole bunch of 1st-in-series graphics novels volumes. There looks to be quite a bit of overlap with HB's long-ago Valiant bundle, but there also seem to be some new titles which weren't in that.

BoH doesn't seem to have a way to top up your pledge, so please be sure of which tier you want to get before buying. Last week's Worldbuilder Toolkit +4 & Worldbuilder Tooklit +2 full of DM aids are still available.