{"id":4166,"date":"2026-01-04T00:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/smoke-and-mirrors-gaiman-neil\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:11:28","slug":"smoke-and-mirrors-gaiman-neil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/smoke-and-mirrors-gaiman-neil\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke and Mirrors – Gaiman, Neil"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Book Preview<\/h3>\n

\nHARPERCOLLINS E-BOOK SPECIAL FEATURE:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Three stories not available in the print edition of this book<\/p>\n

But where there\u2019s a monster there\u2019s a miracle.<\/p>\n

\n


\nREADING THE ENTRAILS: A RONDEL<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019ll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate\u2026<\/p>\n

They do it with mirrors. It\u2019s a clich\u00e9, of course, but it\u2019s also\u2026<\/p>\n

Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat.<\/p>\n

older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter.<\/p>\n

Tramps and vagabonds have marks they make on gate posts\u2026<\/p>\n

They pulled up most of the railway tracks in the early sixties\u2026<\/p>\n

Nobody knew where the toy had come from\u2026<\/p>\n

\n


\nTHE GOLDFISH POOL AND OTHER STORIES<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

It was raining when I arrived in L.A\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026I wish that you would visit me one day\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

When I was a boy, from time to time\u2026<\/p>\n

Later, they would point to his sister\u2019s death, the cancer\u2026<\/p>\n

I had this story from my friend Edmund Wyld Esq\u2026.<\/p>\n

\n


\nSHOGGOTH\u2019S OLD PECULIAR<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Benjamin Lassiter was coming to the unavoidable conclusion\u2026<\/p>\n

There was a computer game, I was given it\u2026<\/p>\n

I was nineteen in 1965, in my drainpipe trousers\u2026<\/p>\n

\n


\nONLY THE END OF THE WORLD AGAIN<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a bad day: I woke up naked in the bed with a cramp\u2026<\/p>\n

Listen, Talbot. Somebody\u2019s killing my people\u2026<\/p>\n

\n


\nWE CAN GET THEM FOR YOU WHOLESALE<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Pinter had never heard of Aristippus of the Cyrenaics\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Read the full book by downloading it below.<\/p>\n

DOWNLOAD EPUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Preview HARPERCOLLINS E-BOOK SPECIAL FEATURE: Three stories not available in the print edition of this book But where there\u2019s a monster there\u2019s a miracle. READING THE ENTRAILS: A RONDEL They\u2019ll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate\u2026 They do it with mirrors. It\u2019s a clich\u00e9, of course, but it\u2019s also\u2026 Mrs. Whitaker … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-neil-gaiman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}