One of the great fiction minds of his generation ROLLING STONEIn his firstever short story collection which spans forty years of work and features many neverbeforepublished pieces international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics Alan Moore presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality.In A Hypothetical Lizard two concubines in a brothel for fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In Not Even Legend a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In Illuminations a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella What We Can Know About Thunderman which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over the last seventyfive years through several sometimesnaive and sometimesmaniacal people rising and falling on its career ladders Moore reveals the dark beating heart of the superhero business.From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang Illuminations is exactly that a series of bright startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.One of the most significant fiction writers in English ... Moores influence can be felt everywherein our literature on our screens in our politicsGUARDIANIlluminations became a Sunday Times Top 5 Bestseller on 15th October 2022