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Smoke and Mirrors

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Special e-book feature: contains three stories -- "Fifteen Painted Cards From a Vampire Tarot"; "Eaten"; "Apple" -- not available in print edition.

The distinctive storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman has been acclaimed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. Now in this new collection of stories -- several of which have never before appeared in print and more than half that have never been collected -- that will dazzle the senses and haunt the imagination.

Miraculous inventions and unforgettable characters inhabit these pages: an elderly widow who finds the Holy Grail in a second-hand store... a frightened little boy who bargains for his life with a troll living under a bridge by the railroad tracks... a stray cat who battles nightly against a recurring evil that threatens his unsuspecting adoptive family.

In these stories, Gaiman displays the power, wit, insight and outrageous originality that have made him one of the most unique literary artists of our day.

Jacket design by Amy Halperin; cover photograph by J.K. Potter.

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Bio of Neil Gaiman

Bestselling author Neil Gaiman has long been one of the top writers in modern comics, and has also penned many books for readers of all ages, including American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and M Is for Magic. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers, and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. He has written multiple New York Times bestselling books, and is a Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus Award winner. He has also worked in support of First Amendment rights, and was awarded the Defender of Liberty Award in August 1997 by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund for his efforts. Born and raised in England, Neil now lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has somehow reached his forties and tends to always need a haircut.

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Imprint

HarperCollins

Filesize

872.27 KB

Number of Pages

352

eBook ISBN

9780061188756

Excerpt from: Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

Chapter One


Nicholas Was...

older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.

The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.

Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.

He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.

Ho.

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