Illuminations: Stories

Alan Moore is one of the greatest and most influential writers in the history of comics. His most famous works include Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls, and the best-selling Jerusalem.

In his first collection of short stories, which includes many previously unpublished works, international bestselling author Alan Moore presents nine bizarre and amazing stories, each of which plunges us into the fantastic depths of reality.

In The Shining, a nostalgic older man decides to visit the seaside resort of his youth and discovers an excessive familiarity with the past. In The Hypothetical Lizard, two concubines in a brothel for fantasy professionals fall in love, but with tragic consequences. In Not Even a Legend, a group of paranormal investigators is infiltrated by one of the extraterrestrial creatures they seek to study. And in the monumental story What We Know About Thunderman, which charts the surreal, Kafkaesque history of the comic book industry, Moore uncovers the dark and living heart of the superhero business. Overall, Illumination is a series of vivid and stunning tales from a modern legend that reveal the power of imagination and magic.