I feel like I need a little disclaimer here: I have never read anything by Neil Gaiman before, so this is a review by someone who isn't familiar with his writing style or storytelling techniques. 
 I am also not going to review every story one by one, because there were so much of them and quite a few had a similar overall tone so I'm just going to stick to that. 
 I must say that this collection of short stories has actually spiked my interest for Neil Gaiman and I'm probably going to read a lot more from him in the future - but I sure hope that I won't be disappointed because there's always a grand difference between short stories and full length books. We'll see. 
 Well written short stories are something that I thouroughly enjoy and appreciate very much, because in my honest opinion this is one of the most difficult genres to write in. For the most part I think Neil Gaiman manages very well to keep his stories short enough but still maintain some level of depth and story-richness. I liked a lot of the short stories, especially A Calendar of Tales and 'The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains...', but there were many more that I enjoyed. 
 I couldn't really appreciate the poems too much because my understanding of the english language just isn't well enough to catch up on beautiful phrasing and choice of words. 
 Also I can't really comment on the issue that other readers had by saying these stories weren't by far his best works, because, as I said, I am unfamiliar with them. But as an unbiased reader I have to say that I very much enjoyed this collection - also because I just loved the Uncanny Valley feeling quite a few of the stories gave me; this sensation of being familiar with a situation but catching up on a few alien points just strong enough to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Neil Gaiman doesn't work with gore or typical horror themes and I very much enjoyed that. 
 Well, there isn't anything more to say. I think everyone will find a few short stories in this book that will speek to him and I just happened to be lucky enough to find quite a few of them.