Alan Moore

"In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned...

Transform your evolving user requirements into feature-rich Tkinter applications Key Features Extensively revised with new content on RESTful networking, classes in Tkinter, and the Notebook widget Take advantage of Tkinter's lightweight, portable, and easy-to-use features Build better-organized code and learn to manage an evolving codebase Book Description Tkinter is widely used to build GUIs in Python due to its simplicity. In this book, you'll...

FROM HELL is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, FROM HELL is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention from critics and scholars. Often regarded as one of the...

In a world where all the fictions ever written coalesce into a rich mosaic, it's 1975. Janni Dakkar, pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family, is eighty years old and beginning to display a tenuous grasp on reality. Pursuing shadows from her past-or her imagination-she embarks on what may be a final voyage down the vastness of the Amazon, a last attempt to put to rest the blood-drenched spectres of old. With allies and adversaries...

The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde and...

Continuing the hardcover collection of master comics writer Alan Moore's award-winning run on The Saga Of The Swamp Thing, this fifth volume begins as Swamp Thing returns from his sojourn to hell, only to learn that his girlfriend Abby is being persecuted for their 'unnatural relations.' When she skips town for Gotham City, he follows and runs afoul of Batman, Lex Luthor and the Gotham City Police Department.

Billy Kincaid, killed by Spawn, finds himself in Hell with other new arrivals. As they travel toward the Tower, they fall one by one to the horrors of the demonic realm. When only Billy and a small child remain, Billy promptly attacks. The child sloughs off her skin, revealing the Vindicator. The Vindicator helps Billy bond with a Myrlu symbiote, creating a new Spawn.

When alien invaders from Mars attack London, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is called upon to protect the empire. They prepare a defense, but when the Invisible Man joins the Martians' cause, all may be lost. Includes "The New Traveller's Almanac," a 19th-century travelogue.