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Original title: Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (1998) [Collection]
      Author: Neil Gaiman
     Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy, the (1998) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lewis Carroll , Neil Gaiman , Terry Pratchett , Robert Rankin , Louise Cooper , Alan Dean Foster , Craig Shaw Gardner , Michael Swanwick , Harry Turtledove , Avram Davidson , Esther M. Friesner , Jane Yolen , Richard A. Lupoff , Lawrence Schimel , Al Sarrantonio , Jack Dann , Randall Garrett , Terry Jones , R. A. Lafferty , Ron Goulart , Amy Myers , David Langford , Peter Cannon , Molly Brown , Harvey Jacobs , Anthony Armstrong , F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre , Tom Holt , Anne Gay , Gardner R. Dozois , Terry Bisson , Edward Lear , John Morressy , James F. Sullivan , Heywood Broun , James A. Bibby , Jack Sharkey
     Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, the (1999) [Anthology]
      Authors: Neil Gaiman , Stephen King , Steven Millhauser , Charles de Lint , Peter Straub , Michael Marshall Smith , Ellen Kushner , Patricia A. McKillip , John Kessel , Sylvia Brownrigg , Jane Yolen , Ed Bryant , Karen Joy Fowler , A. S. Byatt , Jorge Luis Borges , Terri Windling , Susanna Clarke , Lisa Goldstein , Delia Sherman , Sara Douglass , Norman Partridge , Nick (Nicholas A.) DiChario , Chana Bloch , Michael Blumlein , Catharine Savage Brosman , Judy Budnitz , Sarah Corbett , Marisa de los Santos , Terry Dowling , Carol Ann Duffy , Steve Duffy , Dennis Etchison , Larry Fontenot , Bruce Glassco , Christopher Harman , Rick Kennett , Terry Lamsley , Kelly Link , Lawrence Osgood , Holly Prado , Mary Rosenblum , Ralph Salisbury , Ilan Stavans , Mark W. Tiedemann , Ray Vukcevich , Yumiko Kurahashi , Ellen Datlow , Zan Ross