YMMV / Neil Gaiman

• Canon Defilement: Intended Audience Reaction Gaiman hoped Snow, Glass, Apples (a Perspective Flip of "Snow White") would prevent the reader from ever experiencing the original innocently again. His External Retcon of Beowulf pulls a similar trick. The Problem of Susan riffs off of Susan's exile from Narnia: her embrace of adolescence means that, retroactively, she experienced the original adventure as a Darker and Edgier pagan allegory.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Neil's more child-friendly stuff may deceive younger readers into thinking all his work his age appropriate. It isn't. Neil eventually realized this and released M is for Magic.

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