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"We Can Get Them for You Wholesale" is a 1984 short story by Neil Gaiman. The story was first published in the British magazine Knave , [1] and has also been included in his short story collections Angels and Visitations (1993) and Smoke and Mirrors (1998), and in the anthology Bangs & Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World. [1]

The story is about Peter Pinter, a mild-mannered city-dweller who finds his fiancée unfaithful, and so, in the spirit of revenge, searches the phone book for an assassin. To his surprise he finds just what he is looking for, and also that the company offers special deals and discounts for large orders, which piques his curiosity. Peter happens to be a sucker for bargains, and soon finds himself in over his head.

Adaptations

"We Can Get Them for You Wholesale" has been adapted into several independent short films, [2] [3] including "four or five [student films] a year". [4] It has also been adapted into a comic [5] [6] that was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Short Story in 1995. [7]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stories, Listed by Author". The Locus Index to Science Fiction. Locus Magazine. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2006.. Note that the site misdates the issue's publication as 1989 rather than 1984.
  2. "Neil Gaiman's Film Work". neilgaiman.com. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2009.
  3. "Neil Gaiman's Journal: The Blue Tit Post". journal.neilgaiman.com. Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  4. "Neil Gaiman's Journal". journal.neilgaiman.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  5. "We Can Get Them For You Wholesale/Comic - neilgaiman.info". neilgaiman.info. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  6. "We Can Get Them for You Wholesale". Ken Meyer Jr. p. 1. Archived from the original on 12 July 2007.
  7. "1995 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees and Winners". hahnlibrary.net. Archived from the original on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.


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