Smoke And Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors is a collection of short fiction by Neil Gaiman. It was first published in the US in 1998, and in the UK in 1999.Many of the stories in this book are reprints from other sources, such as magazines, anthologies, and collections (including many from Gaiman's earlier Angels and Visitations).
The included stories and poems are different between some of the editions. The US and UK editions have some differences in the list of stories contained in the books.
(It is also rumored that the eBook edition has a different story list, as well.)
- Reading the Entrails: A Rondel
- The Wedding Present (in the introduction)
- Chivalry
- Nicholas Was...
- The Price
- Troll Bridge
- Don't Ask Jack
- The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories
- Eaten (Scenes from a Moving picture) ¹
- The White Road
- Queen of Knives
- The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch ¹
- Changes
- The Daughter of Owls
- Shoggoth's Old Peculiar
- Virus
- Looking for the Girl
- Only the End of the World Again
- Bay Wolf
- Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot ¹
- We Can Get Them for You Wholesale
- One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock
- Cold Colours
- The Sweeper of Dreams
- Foreign Parts
- Vampire Sestina
- Mouse
- The Sea Change
- How Do You Think It Feels? ¹
- When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, age 11 1/4
- Desert Wind
- Tastings
- In the End ¹
- Babycakes
- Murder Mysteries ²
- Snow, Glass, Apples ²
² Not in UK print version