Illuminations

The Top 5 Sunday Times Bestseller

Alan Moore

From the unparalleled imagination of international bestseller Alan Moore, author of From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, which take us to the fantastical underside of reality.

In his first-ever short story collection, which features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness.

In Not Even Legend, a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In A Hypothetical Lizard, two concubines in a brothel for fantastical specialists fall in love, with tragic ramifications. And in the monumental novella What We Can Know About Thunderman, which charts the surreal history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business.

From otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination.

Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is also the author of the bestselling Jerusalem. He was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.