The Witch's Headstone is the only new story in the collection and appears here as a taster for the soon to be published collection The Graveyard Book. The majority of the other stories are pretty good. How to talk to Girls at Parties was nominated for a Hugo award, and is brilliantly imaginative. All of the other stories have been taken from earlier collections; the opening story, The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1984) appeared in Angels and Visitations. In fact, the owners of copies of Angels and Visitations, Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things already have copies of most of these stories. But as this slim volume is aimed at young readers from age 10 upwards then they probably wont have seen these stories before, but older collectors should be warned that most likely they have!