Dans le vol qui l'emmène à l'enterrement de sa femme tant aimée, Ombre rencontre Voyageur, un intrigant personnage. Dieu antique, comme le suggèrent ses énigmes, fou, ou bien simple arnaqueur ? Et en quoi consiste réellement le travail qu'il lui propose ?
En acceptant finalement d'entrer à son service, Ombre va se retrouver plongé au sein d'un conflit qui le dépasse : celui qui oppose héros mythologiques de l'ancien monde et nouvelles idoles profanes de l'Amérique. Mais comment savoir qui tire réellement les ficelles : ces entités légendaires saxonnes issues de l'aube des temps, ou les puissances du consumérisme et de la technologie ? A moins que ce ne soit ce mystérieux M. Monde...
La légende raconte qu'il existerait neuf mondes, reliés par Yggdrasil, le frêne puissant et parfait. C'est là le théâtre des aventures d'Odin, le plus grand et ancien dieu, Père de tout ; de son fils aîné Thor, fort et tumultueux, armé de Mjollnir, son légendaire marteau ; et de Loki, séduisant, rusé et manipulateur inégalable. Dieux trop humains, parfois sages, souvent impétueux, quelquefois tricheurs, ils guerroient, se défient et se trahissent. Jusqu'à Ragnarok, la fin de toutes choses.
Voici leur histoire, rapportée par Neil Gaiman, le plus grand des conteurs.
Dans une rue de Londres, un soir ordinaire, Richard trouve une jeune fille au sol, blessée. Il la prend dans ses bras, elle est d'une légèreté surprenante. Le lendemain, tout dérape : sa fiancée le quitte, on ne le reconnaît pas, certains ne le voient même plus. Le monde à l'envers, en quelque sorte.
Car il semblerait que Londres ait un envers, la « ville d'En Bas », une cité souterraine où vit un peuple d'une autre époque, invisible pour le commun des mortels. Comme plus rien ne le retient « là-haut », Richard rejoint les profondeurs...
Roman inclassable, Neverwhere fourmille d'idées, de rebondissements et de personnages iconoclastes. Le voici pour la première fois en français dans la version author's cut revue et augmentée par l'auteur.
Nobody Owens est un petit garçon parfaitement normal. Ou plutôt, il serait parfaitement normal s'il n'avait pas grandi dans un cimetière, élevé par un couple de fantômes, protégé par Silas, un être étrange ni vivant ni mort, et ami intime d'une sorcière brûlée vive autrefois ; Mais quelqu'un va attirer Nobody au- delà de l'enceinte protectrice du cimetière : le meurtrier qui cherche à l'éliminer depuis qu'il est bébé.
Si tu savais, Nobody, comme le monde des vivants est dangereux...
Horror & ghost stories, chillersPaperback edition of this bestselling scary story from a cult adult author. Over 40,000 copies of the Bloomsbury edition sold. "...I was enthralled. This is a marvellously strange and scary book" Philip Pullman. Readership level: 10+.
Un jeune homme revient sur les lieux de son enfance et voit ses souvenirs refaire surface avec une précision déroutante : le suicide d'un locataire, sa rencontre avec une petite voisine prénommée Lettie, etc. Une réflexion autour de la mémoire, de l'oubli et sur ce qui demeure en chacun de l'enfance.
D'un côté, il y a Wall, paisible village niché au sein d'une calme forêt anglaise. De l'autre, le Pays des Fées, univers d'enchantements, de sorcières, de licornes et de princes sanguinaires. Entre les deux, il y a le Mur, l'infranchissable et épaisse muraille qui ceint le hameau et le sépare de Féerie. Infranchissable ? Pas tout à fait, puisque tous les neuf ans s'ouvre la Foire des Fées qui, durant un jour et une nuit, permet aux deux mondes de se rencontrer.
Dans certaines circonstances, cependant, attendre si longtemps pour pénétrer en Féerie est impossible. Car quand on s'appelle Tristan Thorn et que l'on a promis à sa belle l'étoile filante tombée du firmament de l'autre côté du Mur, aucun obstacle ne saurait s'élever contre l'amour...
Signal d'alerte Fictions courtes et dérangements « Il est des choses qui nous perturbent, des mots ou des idées qui surgissent sous nos pas comme des trappes, nous précipitant de notre monde de sécurité et de bon sens en un lieu beaucoup plus sombre et moins accueillant. » C'est là le chemin que Neil Gaiman nous propose d'arpenter à travers ces vingt-quatre nouvelles, contes et poèmes, en s'affranchissant des genres pour ne garder que la substantifique moelle d'un imaginaire tour à tour sombre ou flamboyant.
Rencontrer les Grands Anciens dans les rues de Londres, goûter la chair de l'oiseau-soleil d'Égypte, survivre aux antivirus de la Matrice, voilà un aperçu des voyages auxquels nous invite Neil Gaiman, dans autant de fables tragiques et grotesques, de poèmes doux et cruels, de récits terribles et merveilleux, où réalité et fantasme s'accouplent à l'ombre de Conan Doyle, H P Lovecraft, C S Lewis ou encore Ray Bradbury.
Une mosaïque de sons, d'odeurs, d'idées, d'échos, de souvenirs éphémères, de choses fragiles à garder précieusement dans le grenier de sa mémoire.
Comptable londonien sans envergure et sans histoires, Gros Charlie Nancy ne se distingue de la majorité de ses concitoyens que par une timidité maladive et une peur du ridicule qui confine à la paranoïa. Ah ! et accessoirement, il est le fils du dieu Anansi. Le problème, c'est que c'est son frangin, Mygale, qui a hérité des pouvoirs paternels. A l'aise en toute circonstance, doté d'un charme irrésistible, d'un bagout insolent, d'un mépris éhonté pour toute considération morale... tout l'inverse de Gros Charlie, qui a dû se contenter, lui, du sens des responsabilités et d'un goût pathologique pour le conformisme. Aussi, le jour où Mygale débarque dans sa vie pathétique, bien décidé à y mettre un peu de piment, ses ennuis ne font que commencer...
There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that if she ventures through that door, she may never come back.
Horror & ghost stories, chillersA tremendously original blend of fantasy, humour, ghost story and family drama from Neil Gaiman, now published in paperback. When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought he would find safety in a graveyard? In 8 chapters featuring every second year of Bod's life, we trace his upbringing by ghosts from infancy to adolescence. With the murderer still at large, will he survive to be a man? This edition is aimed at the young adult market, and contains illustrations by Chris Riddell. Ages: 12+
WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR The Ocean at the End of the Lane is the bestselling magical novel from Neil Gaiman, one of the most brilliant storytellers of our generation and author of the epic novel American Gods , and the much-loved Sandman series. 'Possibly Gaiman's most lyrical, scary and beautiful work yet. It's a tale of childhood for grown-ups, a fantasy rooted in the darkest corners of reality' ( Independent on Sunday). If you loved the mesmerising world of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus or were drawn into J.K. Rowling's magical universe, this book is for you. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark.
An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat and a stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his adoptive family from evil. These tales and many more await in Gaiman's storybook.
The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, now an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. " Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It's a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick."-- Washington Post According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter , Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon--both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle--are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
Discover Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere , the extraordinary modern classic from the bestselling author of American Gods , illustrated for the first time by 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. This beautiful edition features the fully illustrated short story, 'How the Marquis Got His Coat Back', and will delight fans of Coraline, The Book of Dust and Goth Girl . 'Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him' Stephen King Under the streets of London lies a world most people could never dream of. When Richard Mayhew helps a mysterious girl he finds bleeding on the pavement, his boring life changes in an instant. Her name is Door, she's on the run from two assassins in black suits and she comes from London Below. His act of kindness leads him to a place filled with monsters and angels, a Beast in a labyrinth and an Earl who holds Court in a Tube train. It is strangely familiar yet utterly bizarre .
Neil Gaiman's extraordinary Fragile Things , from the bestselling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods , reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers, and harnesses the Gothic power of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber to the storytelling genius of Stephen King. 'The collections also boasts lush prose . . . and a winning faith in the enchantment of stories' Kirkus Reviews The distinctive genius of Neil Gaiman has been championed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. With THE SANDMAN Neil Gaiman created one of the most sophisticated, intelligent and influential graphic novel series of our time. Now Gaiman has produced FRAGILE THINGS, his second collection of short fiction. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.
A special illustrated edition of The Ocean at the End of the Lane , the bestselling magical novel from master storyteller Neil Gaiman. Breathtaking black-and-white illustrations throughout by fine artist and illustrator, Elise Hurst. 'Both a pitch-perfect fantasy and a moving examination of childhood memories and their effects on our adult selves ... superb' The Times 'Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul' Joanne Harris This is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane: A dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse. An ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made. A beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile. And dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed. They are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edge of things. The recollections of a man who thought he was lost but is now, perhaps, remembering a time when he was saved...
In Trigger Warning , global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction , which includes a Doctor Who adventure, the David Bowie-inspired The Return of the Thin White Duke and a never-before published American Gods story, Black Dog . The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime in November 2015. 'We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting. These are stories about those masks, and the people we are underneath them.' Neil Gaiman, writing from a cabin in the dark woods. Make sure you secure your own mask before reading. Before being transported to worlds filled with witches, watchers and big black bees, with deathless Kin and pirate girls, with things that prowl in the darkness beyond the circle fire, to find the Shadder lurking at your journey's end. But then what happens? There's always something waiting for you. There's always more. Just keep turning the pages. 'We each have our little triggers.' Literary alchemy from 'a writer of rare perception and endless imagination' (William Gibson), TRIGGER WARNING is a cornucopia of storytelling: horror and ghost stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry. It will open your eyes to the inexhaustible supply of darkness around you, the magic and the monsters, the myths and the miracles, and to finding truths in the most extraordinary of places.
Neil Gaiman is the bestselling author and creator of books, graphic novels, short stories, film and television for all ages, including Neverwhere , Coraline , The Graveyard Book , The Ocean at the End of the Lane , The View from the Cheap Seats and the critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated television adaptation of American Gods . The recipient of numerous literary honours, Neil has written scripts for Doctor Who , worked with authors and artists including Terry Pratchett, Chris Riddell and Dave McKean, and Sandman is established as one of the classic graphic novels. In 2017, he became a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. As George R. R. Martin says: 'There's no one quite like Neil Gaiman.
A Neverwhere short story from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation - the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning The Ocean At the End of the Lane. The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and touched it. And it was unquestionably his . *** 'Gaiman's achievement is to make the fantasy world seem true' The Times
THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ''BOOK OF THE YEAR'' AN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION ***** ''Neil Gaiman''s entire body of work is a feat of elegant sorcery. He writes with such assurance and originality that the reader has no choice but to surrender to a waking dream'' ARMISTEAD MAUPIN ''Some books just swallow you up, heart and soul'' JOANNE HARRIS ''Summons both the powerlessness and wonder of childhood, and the complicated landscape of memory and forgetting'' GUARDIAN --- ''My favourite response to this book is when people say, ''My childhood was nothing like that - and it was as if I was reading about me'' NEIL GAIMAN --- This is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane: A dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse. An ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made. A beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile. And dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed. They are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edges of things. The recollections of a man who thought he was lost but is now, perhaps, remembering a time when he was saved . . . NEIL GAIMAN. W ITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES. --- **Includes an interview with Neil Gaiman on creating the world of the novel**
