Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere-a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl-an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. It is now available here, and features strikingly atmospheric, painstakingly detailed black-and-white line art by Chris Riddell, one of Gaiman’s favorite artistic interpreters of his work. In 2016, this gorgeously illustrated edition of the novel was released in the UK. Over the years, various versions have been produced around the world. National Bestseller Selected as one of NPR’S Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s dark classic of modern fantasy, beautifully illustrated for the first time by award-winning artist Chris Riddell, and featuring the author’s preferred text and his Neverwhere tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.” Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent.
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