From Hell: Master Edition

Alan Moore's entrancing fantasy masterpiece concludes in an all-new Deluxe Edition hardcover featuring the spectacular art of J.H. Williams III.<BR><BR>"A Higher Court" presents a fantastical trial in the Immateria, presided over by a strange judge and jury. Their task? To determine who shall be the one true Promethea: Stacia or Sophie. It's a battle of best friends who both happen to be Prometheas. Whichever way the fates turn, one thing is for certain: A door will close in Sophie's life. Everything must go as the landmark series nears its conclusion! This is it, the end of the story, the one that answers all the questions! Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III deliver the most gloriously experimental collection of PROMETHEA yet, in which the reader takes an incredible trip through the magical cosmos with Promethea as a guide. Collects issues #24-32.

Welcome to the story to end all stories. Two decades of literary League lunacy have all been building to this, the most ambitious meta-comic imaginable.<BR><BR>After an epic twenty-year journey through the entirety of human culture - the biggest cross-continuity 'universe' that is conceivable - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill conclude both their legendary League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and their equally legendary comic-book careers with the series' spectacular fourth and final volume, The Tempest. Tying up the slenderest of plot threads and allusions from the three preceding volumes, The Black Dossier, and the Nemo trilogy into a dazzling and ingenious bow, the world's most accomplished and bad-tempered artist-writer team use their most stylistically adventurous outing yet to display the glories of the medium they are leaving; to demonstrate the excitement that attracted them to the field in the first place; and to analyse, critically and entertainingly, the reasons for their departure.<BR><BR>Opening simultaneously in the panic-stricken headquarters of British Military Intelligence, the fabled Ayesha's lost African city of Kor and the domed citadel of 'We' on the devastated Earth of the year 2,996, the dense and yet furiously-paced narrative hurtles like an express locomotive across the fictional globe from Lincoln Island to modern America to the Blazing World; from the Jacobean antiquity of Prospero's Men to the superhero-inundated pastures of the present to the unimaginable reaches of a shimmering science-fiction future. With a cast-list that includes many of the most iconic figures from literature and pop culture, and a tempo that conveys the terrible momentum of inevitable events, this is literally and literarily the story to end all stories. Originally published as a six-issue run of unfashionable, outmoded and flimsy children's comics that would make you appear emotionally backward if you read them on the bus, this climactic magnum opus also reprints classic English super-team publication The Seven Stars from the murky black-and-white reaches of 1964. A magnificent celebration of everything comics were, are and could be, any appreciator or student of the medium would be unwise to miss The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: THE TEMPEST.<BR><BR>Co-Published by Top Shelf Productions (US) and Knockabout (UK).

Dennis Knuckleyard, achtzehn Jahre alt und Vollwaise, lebt und arbeitet in einem heruntergekommenen Buchladen. Nichtsahnend folgt er eines Tages den Anweisungen seiner kettenrauchenden Chefin und Ersatzmutter Ada, einen Stapel seltener Bücher abzuholen - unter denen sich jedoch eines befindet, das es eigentlich gar nicht geben dürfte. Denn obwohl es einem Roman entstammt, also fiktiv ist, hält er es wahrhaftig in den Händen. // Wie sich herausstellt, kommt es aus einem anderen London, dem großen Wenn, einem Spiegelbild der Stadt, in dem Zeit und Raum zerfließen und wundersame Geschöpfe ihr Unwesen treiben. Und Dennis muss, wenn ihm sein Leben lieb ist, das geheimnisvolle Buch dorthin zurückbringen. Damit beginnen Dennis' Abenteuer in einer phantastischen Welt, wo er es mit Magiern, Künstlern und Ganoven zu tun bekommt - und mit den eigentlichen Herrschern über die magische Metropole.

'Extraordinary' Susanna Clarke, bestselling author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell<BR><BR>A continuation of The Great When; a dark and beguiling tour through the streets of London - fictional and real - by a legend of modern fantasy<BR> <BR> It's 1958. A time of Rock and Roll, of protest, riot and change. and London is full of danger. Dennis Knuckleyard is finally growing up, and above all he wants to leave the Great When in the past. For nine years, he's avoided so much as thinking about the magical shadow version of London, managing even to palm off what should've been his last souvenir of that experience - an iron key he secretly brought back.<BR><BR> But while Dennis may believe he's done with the Great When, it's not done with him. The unsuspecting rube now in possession of the key has discovered its magical properties, bringing forth mythic, occult beings into Dennis's London and sparking riots in the capital. Worse still, Dennis hears his first love Grace has returned to the Great When to investigate strange happenings in both cities.<BR><BR> Desperate to keep Grace safe and return London to normal, Dennis follows her back into the hidden city. But once it has him back, The Great When will not let him go away again so easily. He and Grace must fight to set things right or forever lose everything.<BR><BR> Electrifying, absurd, magical and more true than you might believe, I Hear A New World takes the reader back to Long London for a thrilling and fantastical second instalment.<BR> <BR> Praise for The Great When: the first book in a new series by Sunday Times-bestseller and icon, Alan Moore.<BR><BR> 'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic, terrifying' Iain Sinclair<BR><BR> 'Brilliant and so powerfully imaginative' Adam Curtis<BR><BR> 'A weird book and a complete joy' Mariana Enríquez<BR><BR> 'Extraordinary . . . very funny . . . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience' Susanna Clarke

A New York Times best-seller!In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the cold war is in full effect!Watchmen begins as a murder-mystery, but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As the resolution comes to a head, the unlikely group of reunited heroes--Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias--have to test the limits of their convictions and ask themselves where the true line is between good and evil. In the mid-eighties, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created Watchmen, changing the course of comics' history and essentially remaking how popular culture perceived the genre. Popularly cited as the point where comics came of age, Watchmen's sophisticated take on superheroes has been universally acclaimed for its psychological depth and realism.Watchmen is collected here in deluxe hardcover, with sketches, extra bonus material and a new introduction by series artist Dave Gibbons.

Before Watchmen, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. comic book industry with the revitalization of the horror comic book The Swamp Thing. His deconstruction of the classic monster stretched the creative boundaries of the medium and became one of the most spectacular series in comic book history.With modern-day issues explored against a backdrop of horror, The Swamp Thing stories became commentaries on environmental, political and social issues, unflinching in their relevance. Saga of the Swamp Thing Book One collects issues #20-27 of this seminal series including the never-before-reprinted Saga of The Swamp Thing #20, where Moore takes over as writer and concludes the previous storyline.Book One begins with the story "The Anatomy Lesson," a haunting origin story that reshapes Swamp Thing mythology with terrifying revelations that begin a journey of discovery and adventure that will take him across the stars and beyond.

Una crepa divide il mondo dei vivi da quello dei morti. Su questa crepa sorge Northampton. la città inglese che ha dato i natali ad Alan Moore. epicentro di questa monumentale opera polifonica. È qui che l'umanità abbraccia l'abisso, dando vita a storie che intrecciano le visioni di William Blake ai vortici di James Joyce, le nere periferie di Charles Dickens ai vuoti lunari di Samuel Beckett. Dal creatore di Watchmen e V per Vendetta, un romanzo che sfida i canoni della letteratura contemporanea.