The year is 1602 and strange things are stirring in England. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, court magician Dr. Stephen Strange senses that the bizarre weather plaguing the skies above is not of natural origin. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings - young men bearing fantastic superhuman powers and abilities. And in the center of the rising chaos is Virginia Dare, a young girl newly arrived from the New World, guarded by a towering Indian warrior. Can Fury and his allies find a connection to these unusual happenings before the whole world ends?

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2015... First William Morrow paperback edition published 2016. Second William Morrow paperback edition published 2021."--Title page verso./ Includes the novella How the marquis got his coat back./ Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's first novel, Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her -- 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.

"When several children go missing in a small English hamlet, the Dead Boy Detectives are on the case. A series of strange and unexpected twists take them to Free Country, a place that dates back a millennia, where children never grow old and are free from the abuse and tyranny of adults. But Free Country is failing and what it needs is the strength of five innately powerful children--one of whom is sorcerer Timothy Hunter--to restore their uncanny world to what it once was. This complete edition features Neil Gaiman's original THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE #1, with artists Chris Bachalo and Mike Barreiro, along with THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE #2 with writers Alisa Kwitney and Jamie Delano and artist Peter Snejbjerg. A brand-new middle act, written by DEAD BOY DETECTIVES writer Toby Litt, and drawn by THE BOOKS OF MAGIC artist extraodinaire Peter Gross, fully completes this compelling tale of ancient history, stolen dreams and lost children, in a way Neil Gaiman originally envisioned. Also featuring an introduction by Gaiman, and exquisite new cover art by DEAD BOY DETECTIVES artist Mark Buckingham."--Page [4] of cover.