![]() ![]() “Somewhere in this sprawling behemoth, this teeming leviathan, this pythonic mammoth of a novel there is a very good – even visionary – book struggling to get out. “There is much here that is magnificent,” wrote the Guardian at the time. In 2016, he published the 1,000-plus page novel Jerusalem, about his home town of Northampton, with comics publisher Knockabout. Moore stopped writing comics in 2019, leaving behind him a roster of work including The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, his influential Batman comic The Killing Joke, and From Hell. “These projects have set Bloomsbury alight.” “Alan Moore is simply a legend and it has been such a pleasure to listen to him talk about his ambitious Long London series as well as discovering the range of his shorter fiction,” said Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Paul Baggaley. Bloomsbury said it “promises to be epic and unforgettable, a tour-de-force of magic and history”. The series will move from the “shell-shocked and unravelled” London of 1949 to “a version of London just beyond our knowledge”, encompassing murder, magic and madness. ![]() ![]() The entire series was collected in trade paperback, published by. The series was published in 10 volumes between 19, and an appendix, From Hell: The Dance of the Gull-Catchers, was published in 1998. The second acquisition is a fantasy quintet titled Long London, which will launch in 2024. From Hell is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and drawn by Eddie Campbell, speculating about the identity of Jack the Ripper. ![]()
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