Neil Gaiman | Smoke And Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors is Neil Gaiman's dazzling first collection of short fiction, a journey into worlds where the everyday can become magical, unsettling or wonderfully strange without warning. An elderly woman discovers the Holy Grail in a second-hand shop, a seemingly ordinary cat fights a terrifying nightly battle to protect its adopted family, and a frightened boy encounters a troll beneath a railway bridge.
Blending fantasy, horror, mythology, dark humour and imaginative reinventions of familiar tales, Gaiman repeatedly blurs the boundary between reality and the impossible. Playful one moment and deeply unsettling the next, these stories showcase the remarkable range of a storyteller able to find wonder and menace in the most unexpected places. Smoke and Mirrors is an absorbing collection for established Gaiman readers and an excellent introduction to the darker, stranger corners of his imagination.
- • Publisher: Headline / Headline Book Publishing
• Language: English
• Cover: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390 pages in bibliographic record for the edition London, Hodder Headline Group, 1999
• Format: approximately 178 × 110 mm
• Thickness: approximately 28 mm
• Weight: approximately 210–228 g
• Genre: Fantasy, horror, magical realism, short stories
• Category: Fiction / short story collection






