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

"Bestseller Moore's satisfying second Long London urban fantasy . . . again adroitly blends the fantastic and the mundane . . . Moore's worldbuilding is as fascinating as ever. Series fans won't be disappointed." --Publishers Weekly

"Extraordinary . . . very funny . . . It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience." --Susanna Clarke, NYT bestselling author of PIRANESI and JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL on THE GREAT WHEN

"Moore is a wizardly prose stylist whose sentences flow in a Joycean stream . . . If you're looking for a writer to ensorcell you in a saga of hard-boiled crime and surrealist horror, here is your magus." --The Wall Street Journal on THE GREAT WHEN

"A dynamite story collection." --The New York Times Book Review on ILLUMINATIONS

"I'm not sure there's a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore." --Entertainment Weekly

"The next in the series after The Great When (2024), Moore's latest continues his dramatic, epic love letter to London . . . Readers will enjoy Dennis' hapless struggle to get out of yet another visit to the Great When alive as well as the entrancing atmosphere and creatures of that other London." --Booklist

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Pub date: 2026-05-26

Length: 336 pages