Beautifully sinister. Filled with irresistible darkness. Neil Gaiman is a writer of fantastic fiction, and 'Trigger Warning' is fantastic. 
 Some of the fragments in here bids me welcome from the past. "The Sleeper and the Spindle" is a sensational masterpiece, I read multiple times last year, living in the fairy tale while it lasted. "A Calendar of Tales" is as beautiful as it is haunting, and the story behind the little stories is mesmerizing. The idea of writing an entire story based on a single sentence from a stranger is complex and rich, ultimately suggesting that inspiration can come from the most unlikely sources. 
 Some of the fragments in here were surprises. Things I did not expect to find within a collection of Neil Gaiman-stories. As someone who has never watched a single episode of 'Doctor Who', I was not prepared to read a story about the TV-show. But I did, as Neil Gaiman had written it, and I enjoyed it more than I ever thought possible. It didn't matter that I didn't have a firm grip on the structures within the Whovian-world, what mattered was Gaiman's words, and they told me everything that I needed to know. 
 Neither did I expect to read a crime-story by Neil Gaiman. Even if it was based on Sherlock Holmes, it came as a pleasant surprise. Elegant, well-crafted and mysterious; classic Sherlock Holmes blended with Gaiman's trademark mystery. 
 And, of course, some of the fragments in here were classic Gaiman-productions. Something you'd expect a true magician to write with ink of liquid beauty. "Feminine Endings" is brutally claustrophobic, a stalker circling in on his victim, manipulating words to express caressing love while speaking of a violent obsession. "The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains" was equally drawing, made up of vivid imagery and told as a fairytale-esque myth. Exactly as original, beautiful and disturbing as one would expect. 
 "Trigger Warning" is a wonderful story collection, filled with monsters, things and words that will creep under your skin and stay there. Gaiman's stories are triggers, and do consider yourself warned.