Patrick Marcel Books

Neverwhere is the stunningly original first novel from Neil Gaiman, the bestselling and prizewinning author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods. Wired called it 'the sort of book Terry Pratchett might produce if he spent a month locked in a cellar with Frank Kafka'. This is a must-read for all those who loved Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell or the magical world of J.K. Rowling. Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his safe and predictable life and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and yet utterly bizarre. There's a girl named Door, an Angel called Islington, an Earl who holds Court on the carriage of a Tube train, a Beast in a labyrinth, and dangers and delights beyond imagining . . . And Richard, who only wants to go home, is to find a strange destiny waiting for him below the streets of his native city. Includes extra material exclusive to this Headline Review edition.

Taking a cynical look at the horror genre, this book features Crowley and Aziraphale, two friends who attempt to prevent the prophesised Armageddon. When the Antichrist is born they divert him from his original home at the American Embassy to Tadfield, where he grows into an unkempt individual.

This is the story of Jekub, the Dragon in the Hill with great big teeth and a great loud voice. (Well, that’s according to the nomes, but they are only four inches tall.) When humans threaten their new home in the quarry, the natural thing would be to run and hide. But the nomes have got the wild idea that they should fight back. After all, everyone knows that nomes are faster and smarter than humans, and now they have a secret weapon . . . The fantastically funny second book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.

Guy de Maupassant, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Jean Ray, Jorge Luis Borges, Edgar Poe, Peter Straub, Bram Stoker et son Dracula... Autant de signatures majeures d'un genre littéraire, le fantastique, marqué par l'exploration du surnaturel, de l'horreur et de l'irrationnel. Reflet des peurs les plus intimes, le fantastique accueille depuis l'aube de la littérature des figures imaginaires immortelles : vampires sanguinaires ou romantiques, loups-garous pathétiques, démons impitoyables, maisons hantées ou momies vengeresses. Indispensable outil pour les enseignants, fidèle compa­gnon de voyages du lecteur néophyte ou confirmé, ce guide de lecture propose un parcours souvent terrifiant au sein d'une littérature qui cherche à appréhender les facettes les plus sombres de l'inconscient humain. • historique de la littérature fantastique • 100 propositions de lecture Né en 1956, Patrick Marcel, quand il ne travaille pas pour l'aviation civile, traduit des romans de littérature fantastique et de science-fiction (Hughart, Gaiman, Holdstock, Pratchett...). Il a longtemps dirigé Manticora, une revue consacrée à l'exploration, la présentation et la promo­tion de toutes les formes du fantastique.