The Sleeper and the Spindle

Bloomsbury Publishing, London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney

This story first appeared in Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales,

published in 2013 by Little, Brown

First published in Great Britain in October 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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This eBook edition first published in Great Britain in 2015

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Text copyright © Neil Gaiman 2013, 2014

Illustrations copyright © Chris Riddell 2014

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ISBN 978 1 4088 5964 3 (Print)

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