National Bestseller Selected as one of NPR’S Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his “preferred text”—and including his special Neverwhere tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back” Published in 1997, Neverwhere heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the years, a number of versions were produced both in the U.S. and the U.K. Now Gaiman’s preferred edition of his classic novel reconciles these works and reinstates a number of scenes cut from the original published books. Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her family’s slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door’s quest to save her world—and may well die trying. Neil Gaiman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, and is the recipient of numerous literary honors. Originally from England, he now lives in America.

ニール・ゲイマンが描く「ロンドン・ビロウ」は、都市の裂け目に潜む忘れ去られた者たちの神話です。現実の裏側に広がるこの迷宮は、日常で見落とされる孤独や異端への鋭い洞察に満ちています。善意から異世界へ堕ちる主人公の歩みは、平穏な生の脆さと、過酷な旅の果てに見出す真の自己探求を象徴しており、読者の魂を激しく揺さぶります。 著者が望んだ形での決定版である本作は、過去に削ぎ落とされた断片が復元された究極のテキストです。言葉の端々に宿る魔術的な筆致は、挿絵と響き合うことで、闇のロンドンをより鮮烈に、かつ幻想的に肉付けしています。一度踏み込めば戻れない抗いがたい没入感は、まさに都市ファンタジーの金字塔。あなたの足元にも広がるかもしれない、魅惑的な深淵をぜひ体感してください。