［英］尼爾·蓋曼（1960 ～ ）

尼爾·蓋曼是近十年來歐美文壇崛起的最耀眼明星，被視為新一代幻想文學的代錶人物。其創作領域橫跨幻想小說、科幻小說、恐怖小說、兒童小說、漫畫及歌詞。他的作品不但部部暢銷，而且獲奬無數。恐怖小說大師斯蒂芬·金稱贊他是一個“裝滿瞭故事的寶庫”。《文學傳記辭典》將他列為十大後現代作傢之一。

Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre. There's a girl named Door, an Angel called Islington, an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train, a Beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining ...And Richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city. Includes extra material exclusive to Headline Review's edition