Series
London Below
Neil Gaiman · 1 novel · 2 novelettes · 2 short stories · 1996–2020
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (1996) follows Richard Mayhew, an ordinary Londoner who stops to help an injured girl and is pulled out of everyday London into London Below, a hidden, magical underworld of forgotten places and strange factions existing alongside the city he knew. The novel began life as a BBC television series before Gaiman reworked it into this stand-alone book.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
London Below at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s1
- 2000s0
- 2010s3
- 2020s1
Shape
1 novel · 2 novelettes · 2 short stories
1 author
reads like:urban fantasytransported to another worldbritish islescontemporaryeerieadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Neverwheredarkest · calmest
- How the Marquis Got His Coat Backbrightest
- Excerpt from Neverwheremost intense