Fantasy author Neil Gaiman's 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel
but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of
adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock's briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman's
Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work situates it in relation to the fantasy genre
with attention in particular to the Hero's Journey urban fantasy word play social critique
and contemporary fantasy trends and explores it as a case study in transmedial adaptation. The
study ends with an interview with Neil Gaiman that addresses the novel and a bibliography of
scholarly works on Gaiman.
