American Gods is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman.
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New American Gods abduct Shadow, but Laura rescues him, killing several Spooks in the process.
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American Gods is shortly arrested by Chad for breaking his parole, but is able to escape with help from Czernobog and Mr Nancy.
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New American Gods seek to parley with Wednesday, but murder him at the meeting.
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American Gods then meets with Loki and manages to stab him with the World Tree branch, which turns into a spear as she stabs.
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American Gods falls through the ice and, while trapped beneath, sees cars from past winters resting on the lake floor.
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American Gods had sought advice from Pratchett on resolving plot elements of American Gods.
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American Gods abandoned the story, but later used the idea when writing American Gods to depict Wednesday and Shadow meeting on the god's namesake day.
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On 28 February 2008, Gaiman announced on his journal that for one month the complete text of American Gods would be available to the public on his publisher's website.
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In May 2010, American Gods was selected in an online poll to be the first "One Book One Twitter" book.
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Comic book series, American Gods: Shadows, was published by Dark Horse Comics starting in March 2017.
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Power metal band Blind Guardian wrote a song titled "Secrets of the American Gods" based on the novel, on their 2022 album The God Machine.
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