The Great When

戰後倫敦的謀殺、魔法與瘋狂

由《紐約時報》暢銷作家、傳奇故事大師艾倫·摩爾(Alan Moore)帶來全新奇幻系列的首部曲，
描繪了一個充滿謀殺、魔法與瘋狂的1940年代末倫敦。


1949年的倫敦，霧霾籠罩著整座城市。
年僅十八歲的丹尼斯·納克利亞德(Dennis Knuckleyard)在一家二手書店工作，日子平淡無奇。

某天，他奉命出門為書店搜羅可出售的書籍，卻意外發現了一本不存在的小說——
一部原本只應存在於另一部小說中的虛構之書。
然而，這本書竟真實地存在於他手中。

這究竟是怎麼回事？


丹尼斯無意間闖入了Great When——
一個超越時空的魔法倫敦。

在這個奇異的世界中，現實與虛構交織，各種概念如「罪案」和「詩歌」都化身為奇妙且恐怖的存在。
然而，這個魔法世界必須保守秘密。

如果丹尼斯無法將這本書送回其所屬之地，他將面臨極其可怕的後果，比如：他的身體可能會被完全翻轉（或者更糟）。


於是，一場穿梭於倫敦地下神秘世界的冒險開始了。
丹尼斯將遇見一群古怪離奇的人物——巫師、黑幫、殺手...
有些是傳說中的存在，有些卻過於真實。
每個人都懷有自己的計劃。隨著事件逐漸失控，丹尼斯發現自己捲入了一場可能永久改變並危及兩個倫敦世界的驚險風暴……


《The Great When》將帶你進入一個光怪陸離的奇幻宇宙，這是艾倫·摩爾不容錯過的創作巔峰。

From the New York Times bestselling author and legendary storyteller Alan Moore, 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...