‘I’m bursting with fiction’: Alan Moore announces five-volume fantasy epic

Exclusive: Watchmen and V for Vendetta writer lands six-figure deal for fantasy quintet Long London and short story collection

Two years after announcing that he had retired from comics, Alan Moore, the illustrious author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta, has signed a six-figure deal for a groundbreaking" five-volume fantasy series as well as a momentous" collection of short stories.

Bloomsbury, home to the Harry Potter novels, acquired what it described as two major" projects from the 67-year-old. The first, Illuminations, is a short story collection which will be published in autumn 2022 and which moves from the four horsemen of the apocalypse to the Boltzmann brains" fashioning the universe. Bloomsbury said it was dazzlingly original and brimming with energy", promising a series of beguiling and elegantly crafted tales that reveal the full power of imagination and magic".