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鏡子是種奇妙的東西，它似乎能吐露真言，把生命據實反映在我們面前；不過，只要把鏡子擺放在適當的位置，它就會使出瞞天過海的本領，讓你相信東西憑空消失了；擺放的角度對了，就會變成一具魔法框架，讓你見到所有你想像得到的東西，或許也可以讓你見到一些意想不到的玩意。
這裡收錄的二十五篇短篇小說、奇想短文與故事詩，內容涵蓋他寫作生涯中的重要短篇創作，充滿各種有趣、晦澀、雙關的創作題材，觸及他創作中的重要主題：性、死亡、夢想、世界末日……「每則故事都是某件事物的反映或反省，並不會比你吐出來的煙還要具體，那些故事都是來自鏡子國度的訊息，也是瞬息萬變的雲朵裡的圖畫：煙和鏡子，那些故事就是煙和鏡子。」
如果寫作最好的理由，就是釋放惡魔、讓惡魔起飛——歡迎來到尼爾·蓋曼令惡魔翩翩起舞的世界。
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I have always wanted to like Neil Gaiman's more than I really managed, but some of these short stories genuinely made a believer out of me. And some of them...didn't. The problem with anthologies is how much of a mixed bag they often are. There were stories in here I would absolutely have given four stars to (Snow, Glass, Apples is a particular stand-out, along with Murder Mysteries, though there were a few others that I also liked quite a bit) and several that would have gotten only two or, if I was feeling particularly annoyed, one. Some of that is just me, admittedly: I almost never like verse, and it takes a truly gifted story or author to make me like it. I didn't feel like Neil Gaiman managed in any of the verse he presented here. Overall, I'm impressed with his ability to tell a good story in short form (that is a skill many lack) and I'll definitely pick up another of his short story collections, if only for the absolute gems among them. I think I might honestly be more impressed with his ability to tell short stories than with any of the novels of his I have so far read, which seems to be an unusual opinion.