Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew. "A fantastic story that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" ( San Diego Union-Tribune ), Neil Gaiman's first solo novel has become a touchstone of urban fantasy, and a perennial favorite of readers everywhere.

［英］尼尔·盖曼（1960 ～ ）

尼尔·盖曼是近十年来欧美文坛崛起的最耀眼明星，被视为新一代幻想文学的代表人物。其创作领域横跨幻想小说、科幻小说、恐怖小说、儿童小说、漫画及歌词。他的作品不但部部畅销，而且获奖无数。恐怖小说大师斯蒂芬·金称赞他是一个“装满了故事的宝库”。《文学传记辞典》将他列为十大后现代作家之一。