From the creator of the famous "American Gods", "Nowhere" and "Stardust".A gripping mythic tale, the brilliantly told story of a lonely "book" boy, whose name the reader never learns, in in which the features of the author himself are unmistakably guessed.A walk through the Sussex farms leads the hero to the house of the ancient gods playing people, and from that moment the fabric of the familiar world is torn and turned inside out, and creatures of another world penetrate into the hole - so strange and terrible, that it is impossible to even think about them.