<p><strong>"Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read <em>Neverwhere</em>, the new edition is the one to read, and is a fitting introduction to Gaiman's adult fiction....American readers can experience this spellbinding, magical world the way that Neil Gaiman wanted us to all along." --<em>Huffington Post</em></strong><strong><br/></strong></p><p><strong>The #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"--and including his special <em>Neverwhere</em> tale, "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back".</strong></p> <p>Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, <em>Neverwhere</em>, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. <br/><br/>It 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 slaught