Neil Gaiman: Smoke and Mirrors (paperback)

Englanninkielinen pokkari
431 pages

Neil Gaiman: Smoke and Mirrors
Headline 2000

The distinctive storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman has been acclaimed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. In Smoke and Mirrors - the definitive collection of Gaiman's short fiction, including previously unpublished material - he will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the depths of your soul.

In Gaiman's richly imagined fictions, anything is possible:
an elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store; under a bridge, a frightened little boy bargains for his life with a very persistent troll; a stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his unsuspecting adoptive family from unimaginable evil...

These miraculous inventions and many more await in this extraordinary book, revealing one of our most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers.

Contents:

Reading the Entrails: A Rondel 1
An Introduction 2
Chivalry 40
Nicholas Was... 57
The Price 58
Troll Bridge 67
Don't Ask Jack 80
The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories 83
Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) 124
The White Road 131
Queen of Knives 144
The Facts in the Case of the Departure
of Miss Finch 154
Changes 176
The Daughter of Owls 187
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar 190
Virus 204
Looking for the Girl 207
Only the End of the World Again 221
Bay Wolf 243
Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot 251
We Can Get Them for You Wholesale 260
One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock 273
Cold Colors 291
The Sweeper of Dreams 303
Foreign Parts 305
Vampire Sestina 324
Mouse 326
The Sea Change 338
How Do You Think It Feels? 343
When We Went to See the End of the World
by Dawnie Morningside, age 11¼ 353
Desert Wind 361
Tastings 364
In the End 374
Babycakes 376
Murder Mysteries 378
Snow, Glass Apples 415