Neil Gaiman's the Last Temptation 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Neil Gaiman · Alice Cooper

Oct 2014 · Dynamite

About this eBook

• Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Coraline, American Gods) bringsshock rocker Alice Cooper's concept album to life in a surreal sideshow of thesoul! Join a young boy named Steven on a surreal journey of the soul, as anenigmatic and potentially dangerous Showman seduces him into joining hiscarnival.
• Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this seminal Gaiman work, returned toprint for the first time in over a decade. Fully remastered in color, thisDeluxe Edition incorporates complete scripts to all three chapters,black-and-white thumbnail art of pre-colored pages, an original outline of theproject by Neil Gaiman, and a collection of letters between shock rocker AliceCooper and the author!
• "I'm really happy that The Last Temptation is coming outfor a new generation of readers, who have not seen Michael Zulli'sglorious drawings, or know of the Showman and his wicked ways," says NeilGaiman. "I wrote this a long time ago, driven by love of RayBradbury's dark carnivals and of Alice Cooper's own pandemoniumshadow show. It's time for it to shuffle out onto a leaf-covered streetand meet the people who don't know about Stephen and Mercy and showwhat's coming to town."

About the author

Neil Gaiman was born in Portchester, England on November 10, 1960. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as Time Out, The Sunday Times, Punch, and The Observer. His first comic endeavor was the graphic novel series The Sandman. The series has won every major industry award including nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, three Harvey Awards, and the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to win a literary award. He writes both children and adult books. His adult books include The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which won a British National Book Awards, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for 2014; Stardust, which won the Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults in 1999; American Gods, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards; Anansi Boys; Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances; and The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, which is a New York Times Bestseller. His children's books include The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish; Coraline, which won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards; The Wolves in the Walls; Odd and the Frost Giants; The Graveyard Book, which won the Newbery Award in 2009 and The Sandman: Overture which won the 2016 Hugo Awards Best Graphic Story.