The Great When
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From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, The Great When is the first book in an enthralling new fantasy series about murder, magic, and madness in post-WWII London.
The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital stumbles Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How?
Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings. But this other, magical London must remain a secret: if Dennis cannot find a way to return this book to where it belongs, he risks repercussions, such as his body being turned inside out (or worse).
So begins a journey delving deep into the city's occult underbelly and tarrying with an eccentric cast of sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers – some from legend, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. Soon Dennis finds himself at the centre of an explosive series of events that may alter and endanger both Londons forever...
In conversation with Benjamin Percy.
Alan Moore
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.
Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow, 2023) -- three story collections and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He has been writing Wolverine for Marvel since 2017 and is known for his celebrated comics runs on Ghost Rider, X-Force, James Bond, Green Arrow, Nightwing and Teen Titans. His honors include the Whiting Award, a McKnight Fellowship, an NEA fellowship, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories.