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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusionsby Neil Gaiman
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In Neil Gaiman's richly imagined fiction, anything is possible. And the proof is in the telling in this extraordinary collection of short stories. Discover within these pages miraculous inventions and curious characters: an elderly widow who finds the Holy Grail tucked beneath an old fur coat in a thrift store, a terrified boy who barters for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks, a young couple who receives a wedding gift that gradually reveals a chilling alternative history of their marriage. Smoke and Mirrors will dazzle your senses, touch your heart — and haunt your dreams. Review:"[Gaiman] is, simply put, a treasure house of story, and we are lucky to have him in any medium." Stephen King Review:"A whopping collection.... Review:"Poe would love him....A box of bonbons for dark fantasy fans, and a strong successor to Neverwhere." Booklist Review:"Imaginative twists on old legends and frightening glimpses into the impossible combine to form this impressive collection....The intriguing world behind these pages is indeed smoke and mirrors, just a step or a word or a story away from our own." Publishers Weekly Review:"Short stories guaranteed to excite the senses and inflame the imagination..." Book Alert Review:"Highly imaginative...readers will find echoes of H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, but the voice is all Gaiman." Dallas Morning News Review:"Gaiman's incantatory storytelling ignites both the bitter and the sweet and its smoke twists and seeps into dark corners, wafts into the light and amusing, even wends poignantly into the heart: nothing he writes should be missed." HorrorOnline.com Review:"Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix." Clive Barker Synopsis:Now available in paperback is the definitive collection of short stories that reveals one of the world's most gifted fantasy writers at the peak of his form. About the AuthorNeil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small-press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.
Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films. Table of ContentsReading the Entrails: A Rondel An Introduction 1 Chivalry 33 Nicholas Was... 48 The Price 49 Troll Bridge 57 Don't Ask Jack 69 The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories 72 The White Road 108 Queen of Knives 120 Changes 130 The Daughter of Owls 141 Shoggoth's Old Peculiar 144 Virus 156 Looking for the Girl 159 Only the End of the World Again 171 Bay Wolf 190 We Can Get Them for You Wholesale 198 One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock 209 Cold Colors 224 The Sweeper of Dreams 236 Foreign Parts 238 Vampire Sestina 255 Mouse 257 The Sea Change 267 When We Went to See the End of the World 271 Desert Wind 278 Tastings 281 Babycakes 290 Murder Mysteries 292 Snow, Glass, Apples 325 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 1 comment: 
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