Smoke and Mirrors

The distinctive storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman has been acclaimed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With this, his first collection of short fiction, he will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the depths of your soul. An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store ... A stray cat fights and refights a nightly battle to protect his adoptive family from an unimagiable evil ... A young couple receives a wedding gift that will reveal a chilling alternate history of their marriage ... Beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks, a frightened little boy bargains for his life with a most persistent troll ... Such miraculous inventions and more await within this a gift of wonder and delight from one of the most unique literary artists of our day. In Neil Gaimans hands, magic is no mere illusion, but a powerful means to reveal the nature of our humanity obscured in the smoke of our fears and anxieties ... and reflected in the funhouse mirrors of our dreams.

The distinctive storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman has been acclaimed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With this, his first collection of short fiction, he will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the depths of your soul. An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store ... A stray cat fights and refights a nightly battle to protect his adoptive family from an unimagiable evil ... A young couple receives a wedding gift that will reveal a chilling alternate history of their marriage ... Beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks, a frightened little boy bargains for his life with a most persistent troll ... Such miraculous inventions and more await within this a gift of wonder and delight from one of the most unique literary artists of our day. In Neil Gaimans hands, magic is no mere illusion, but a powerful means to reveal the nature of our humanity obscured in the smoke of our fears and anxieties ... and reflected in the funhouse mirrors of our dreams.