Good Omens

Maskerade •
Hogfather • Jingo • The Last Continent •
Carpe Jugulum • The Fifth Elephant •
The Truth • Thief of Time • Night Watch •
Monstrous Regiment • Going Postal • Thud! •
The Last Hero (with Paul Kidby) • The Art of Discworld
(with Paul Kidby) • Mort: A Discworld Big Comic
(with Graham Higgins) • The Streets of Ankh-Morpork
(with Stephen Briggs) • The Discworld Companion
(with Stephen Briggs) • The Discworld Mapp
(with Stephen Briggs)

ALSO BY NEIL GAIMAN
    NOVELS
    Anansi Boys • American Gods • Neverwhere • Stardust
    SHORT FICTION
    Fragile Things • Smoke and Mirrors
    FOR CHILDREN
    MirrorMask (with Dave McKean) •
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish •
The Wolves in the Walls (both illustrated by Dave McKean) •
Coraline
    GRAPHIC NOVELS
with Dave McKean
    Violent Cases • Signal to Noise • Mr. Punch
    Sandman
    Preludes & Nocturnes • The Doll’s House •
Dream Country • Season of Mists • A Game for You •
Fables and Reflections • Brief Lives • World’s End •
The Kindly Ones • The Wake
    Death
    The High Cost of Living • The Time of Your Life
    Miscellaneous Graphic Novels
    The Books of Magic • Miracleman: The Golden Age • Black Orchid
    NONFICTION
    MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from
The Jim Henson Company (with Dave McKean) • The Alchemy of
MirrorMask (by Dave McKean; commentary by Neil Gaiman) •
Don’t Panic • Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Kim Newman)

Copyright

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    Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.
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    A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1990 by Workman Publishing Company, Inc.; a trade paperback edition was published in 1992 by The Berkley Publishing Group; and a mass-market edition in 1996 and a trade paperback edition in 2001 were published by Ace Books, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.
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    First Harper paperback published 2007.
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    ISBN: 978-0-06-085396-9
    ISBN-10: 0-06-085396-4
    ISBN: 978-0-06-085397-6 (pbk.)
    ISBN-10: 0-06-085397-2 (pbk.)
    EPub Edition © JUNE 2011 ISBN:9780061991127
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3  Saint Beryl Articulatus of Cracow, reputed to have been martyred in the middle of the fifth century. According to legend, Beryl was a young woman who was betrothed against her will to a pagan, Prince Casimir. On their wedding night she prayed to the Lord to intercede,