• Publication: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and IllusionsPublication Record # 282224
• Author: Neil Gaiman
• Date: 1999-01-00
• Catalog ID: 01294
• Publisher: Avon / SFBC
• Price:
  $11.98^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 340
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (1998) • by J. K. Potter
• Notes:

  • SFBC #01294.
  • This is similar to the Avon edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
  • This is an expanded version of Gaiman's earlier collection Angels & Visitations (DreamHaven 1993).

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xi • Reading the Entrails: A Rondel • (1997) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 1 • An Introduction (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions) • (1998) • essay by Neil Gaiman
• 3 • The Wedding Present • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 33 • Chivalry • (1992) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 48 • Nicholas Was ... • (1990) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 49 • The Price • (1997) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 57 • Troll Bridge • (1993) • short story by Neil Gaiman (variant of Troll-Bridge)
• 69 • Don't Ask Jack • (1995) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 72 • The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories • (1996) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 108 • The White Road • (1995) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 120 • Queen of Knives • (1995) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 130 • Changes • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 141 • The Daughter of Owls • (1997) • short story by Neil Gaiman (variant of Daughter of Owls)
• 144 • Shoggoth's Old Peculiar • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 156 • Virus • (1990) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 159 • Looking for the Girl • (1985) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 171 • Only the End of the World Again • (1994) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 190 • Bay Wolf • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 198 • We Can Get Them for You Wholesale • (1984) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 209 • One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock • (1994) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 224 • Cold Colours • (1990) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 236 • The Sweeper of Dreams • (1996) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 238 • Foreign Parts • (1990) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 255 • Vampire Sestina • (1989) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 257 • Mouse • (1993) • short story by Neil Gaiman (variant of The Mouse)
• 268 • The Sea Change • (1995) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 271 •
  When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11¼^?When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11 1/4
  • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 278 • Desert Wind • (1998) • poem by Neil Gaiman
• 281 • Tastings • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 290 • Babycakes • (1990) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 292 • Murder Mysteries • (1992) • novelette by Neil Gaiman
• 325 • Snow, Glass, Apples • (1995) • short story by Neil Gaiman