Neverwhere...Enter The World Of "London Below"...
Under the streets of London there's a secret world...a dark mysterious world of shadows, tunnels and abandoned underground stations populated by assassins and warriors, angels and vampires, talking rats and a hierarchy of nobility...it's called "London Below"...and sometimes London Below spills out into London Above...
Richard Mayhew is a very ordinary young man. He lives in a flat, has an expensive fiancee and a rather dull job.
One day Richard stops to help a young girl who mysteriously suddenly appears in front of him, lying injured and bleeding on the pavement. He takes her home, cleans her up and discoves that her name is "Door"...
Door asks Richard to find a man called "The Marquis De Carabas", a man who she says can help her. Richard reluctantantly agrees and brings the Marquis back home to see Door...it's only when both Door and the Marquis vanish in front of his eyes, that Richard really starts to realise that's he's got himself involved in some Major Weirdness.
Following his encounter with Door and the Marquis De Carabas, Richard's life turns upside down...taxis won't stop for him, his fiancee has forgotten who he is, he comes back home to find his flat has been rented out to someone else...in short he has become invisible to everything and everyone he knew...
Realising that his only hope of a return to normality is to track down Door again, Richard returns to where he met the Marquis and enters the world where those who fall through the cracks in our society live...the world of which London Below is just a part...the dangerous place which is NEVERWHERE...
Neverwhere By Neil Gaiman - Contents
- Plot Summary Of Neverwhere
- An Extract From Neverwhere
- Neverwhere Reviews & Links
- Neverwhere Blog Posts
- Neverwhere - The TV Series
- Neverwhere On DVD (UK Customers)
- Neverwhere On DVD (USA Customers)
- Neverwhere Novel On Amazon (UK Customers)
- Neverwhere Novel On Amazon (USA Customers)
- Neverwhere Graphic Novel (UK Customers)
- Neverwhere Graphic Novel (USA Customers)
- Who Is Your Favourite "Neverwhere" Character?
- More About The Author Of Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman Links
- If You Liked Neverwhere, You Might Also Like...
- Neverwhere Photos
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Plot Summary Of Neverwhere
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Neverwhere is the companion novelization by Neil Gaiman of the television serial Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry. The plot and characters are exactly the same as in the series, with the exception that the novel form allowed Gaiman to expand and elaborate on certain elements of the story and restore changes made in the televised version from his original plans. Most notable is the appearance of the Floating Market at Harrods (in the novel) rather than on-board HMS Belfast (the tv series). This was changed due to the management of Harrods changing their mind about proposed filming. The novel was originally released by BBC Books in 1996, three episodes into the television series run. It was accompanied by a spoken word CD and cassette release, also by the BBC. The novel enjoyed great success, whereas its television roots did not receive as much international exposure as the novel. In addition to being translated into various languages, it was also re-published as an 'Author's Preferred Text' version, (a combination of the international and original English version, with additional scenes re-inserted by Gaiman) alongside American Gods in 2006. The original BBC Books version had a cover by long time Gaiman collaborator Dave McKean, taken from the birds head rings, flaming fist and London Underground styled graphics created by McKean for the series, as well as a brief section by Gaiman on the making of the series.
An Extract From Neverwhere
The Fool staggered up the aisle with an arthritic mop and a rheumatic mow. He stopped in front of Richard.
'And who might you be?' he asked...
Read the rest of this extract at The Jester's Mask
Neverwhere Reviews & Links
Websites with more info about Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman - Neil's Work > Books > Neverwhere
- Neverwhere on Neil Gaiman's official website
- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman - Read Reviews
- Reviews for Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
- Neverwhere (1996) (mini-series)
- Neverwhere on IMDb
Neverwhere Blog Posts
Bloggers write about Neverwhere...
- Neverwhere
- Neverwhere E-book extra: Neil Gaiman's "Because I Say So: The Making of Neverwhere."Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a ...
- Master Storyteller Neil Gaiman Talks Steampunk And ‘Neverwhere ...
- Steampunk is in the air this week at MTV News, so when author Neil Gaiman popped by our office to talk to us about ?The Graveyard Book? (much, much more on that later), we had to ask him about being cited as a steampunk influence. ...
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Neverwhere Neil Gaiman 1996, 2003, Perennial, New York 0060557818 370p. Richard Mayhew has a normal life in London until he stops to help a young girl bleeding on the streets. She is Door, an opener from London Underground, ...
- Dandelion whine
- For those as care, Neil Gaiman is putting his money where his mouth is re digital rights management. He's long been a proponent of Cory Doctorow's information distribution gospel*, and he appears to be making the whole of his upcoming ...
"Croup and Vandemar - obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed..."
Neverwhere - The TV Series
Before it was a novel, Neverwhere was a TV series...
The original idea for "Neverwhere" came from Neil Gaiman's friend, British actor and comedian, Lenny Henry who approached Neil with an idea for a TV script based around homeless people.Neil did not fell portraying homelessness as "cool" was a good idea, but he took the idea and developed it into a fantasy plotline for TV, which he later turned into both a novel and graphic novel.
Neverwhere was first broadcast on BBC Two from September 12, 1996 in six half-hour episodes:
Door
Knight's Bridge
Earl's Court To Islington
Blackfriars
Down Street
As Above, So Below
Main Cast & Characters;
Gary Bakewell - Richard Mayhew
Laura Fraser - Door
Paterson Joseph - The Marquis de Carabas
Hywel Bennett - Mr. Croup
Clive Russell - Mr. Vandemar
Trevor Peacock - Old Bailey
Tanya Moodie - Hunter
Peter Capaldi - The Angel Islington
The series is available on DVD.
Neverwhere On DVD (UK Customers)
Watch Neverwhere the TV series...
Neverwhere
The Complete BBC Series
[1996]
"Under the streets of London is a strange world inhabited by monsters and saints, muderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. Richard, a quiet London businessman, is pitchforked into this world when he rescues a young girl he finds bleeding on a pavement. Neverwhere is a dark and thrilling mixture of metaphor, history, humour and high adventure. Starring Laura Fraser (The Flying Scotsman), Hywel Bennett (Loot, Eastenders), Gary Bakewell (Man and Boy).
Synopsis
A six part fantasy written for television by Neil Gaiman, which centres around London... Richard Mayhew is a businessman whose whole life is about to change when he meets a girl called Door..."
Neverwhere On DVD (USA Customers)
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Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
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Beneath the familiar streets of London lies another world, and Richard Mayhew is about to be plunged into a dark odyssey through London Below. On his way to dinner with his fiancee he sees a wounded girl on the sidewalk, and his efforts to help her end the life he knows. The next morning, he is a cipher, erased from existence and consigned to a subterranean world of danger and shadows.
One of the most acclaimed fantasy novels in recent years, NEVERWHERE was originally a six-part BBC television series. Rarely seen since its initial broadcast, the visionary tale was the first story written directly for the screen by Neil Gaiman, the prolific genius behind the DC Comics The Sandman series and the best-selling novel American Gods. Now, NEVERWHERE comes to DVD with this mesmerizing collection, which includes audio commentary by Gaiman as well as a vintage interview with him. DVD Features: Commentary with Creator Neil Gaiman; The Original BBC Neil Gaiman Interview; Photo Gallery; Character Descriptions; Neil Gaiman Biography; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection
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Neverwhere:
The Author's Preferred Text
"Wired
'The sort of book Terry Pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cell with Franz Kafka'
William Gibson
'A writer of rare perception and endless imagination'
USA Today
'Delightful... Inventively horrific... The chimerical stuff of nightmare and daydream'
Kirkus Reviews
'Exuberantly inventive... a postmodernist punk Faerie Queen'
Synopsis
Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of - a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre. There's a girl named Door, an Angel called Islington, an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train, a Beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining...And Richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city. This title includes extra material exclusive to Headline Review's edition.
From the Publisher
This is the author's preferred edition, never before published in the UK."
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Neverwhere: A Novel
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Neverwhere Graphic Novel (UK Customers)
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A rattling escapist romp!
Synopsis
There are two Londons. London Above is our 'normal' world, and London Below, deep underground, is where the Black Friars and the Hammer Smith live alongside the rat-speakers, and the Earl's Court forever travels the Circle line...Now, Richard Mayhew's normal life will disappear as he's plunged into London Below, thanks to a young streetkid called Door, herself on the run from a deadly plot. Can they survive? Not if Richard's nightmares about crossing Night's Bridge come true...Acclaimed writer Mike Carey (Lucifer) and master artist Glenn Fabry (Preacher) bring "New York Times" No. 1 bestselling author Neil Gaiman's urban fantasy to vivid life!"
Neverwhere Graphic Novel (USA Customers)
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
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The complete comics adaptation of the acclaimed novel by New York Timesbest-selling author Neil Gaiman is now available in one volume! NEVERWHERE follows the adventures of an ordinary Londoner who stops to helpan enigmatic girl and is drawn into a battle to save the strange underworldkingdom of London Below from destruction.
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Who Is Your Favourite "Neverwhere" Character?
"When angels go bad, they go worse than anyone. Remember, Lucifer was an angel..."
More About The Author Of Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman ()Author Name Pronunciation Guide - Neil Gaiman (born November 10, 1960Comics Buyers Guide #1636 (December 2007); Page 135) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust, and American Gods. The extreme enthusiasm of his fans has led some to call him the "rock star" of the literary world.Author Neil Gaiman Inspires Starstruck Fans, Columbia Daily Spectator, Oct. 1, 2008 [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/55992]
He lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, in an "Addams Family house". "I thought," says Gaiman, "you know, if I'm going to leave England and go to America, I want one of those things that only America can provide and one of those things is Addams Family houses." He is married to Mary T. McGrath and has three children, Michael, Holly and Madeleine.
Neil Gaiman Links
Find out more about Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman - Home
- The official website of Neil Gaiman.
- Neil Gaiman - The official UK publisher's website - Neverwhere
- Neil Gaiman UK publisher's site
- The Dreaming: The Neil Gaiman Page
- The Neil Gaiman Page - Information on the author of The Sandman, Neverwhere and other great stories.
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