The Watchmen and V for Vendetta creator Alan Moore’s first collection of short stories spans 40 years of work and veers from playfully mind-bending to downright disturbing. The multicast narration is effective in a work that can sometimes feel overwritten on the page but, with its madcap set pieces and oddball characters, comes into its own when read aloud.
The White Lines actor Laura Haddock narrates the opening story, Hypothetical Lizard, a chilling tale of revenge set in a brothel that is frequented by sorcerers, while Location, Location, Location, read by W1A’s Nina Sosanya, sees the Second Coming unfolding in the streets of Bedford, where an estate agent shows the vape-loving Messiah an end-of-terrace house handily situated on the site of the Garden of Eden. Rory Kinnear and Emilia Fox gamely narrate Not Even Legend, where the twin narratives see time moving in opposite directions, and where a group of blundering, self-satisfied paranormal enthusiasts are infiltrated by one of the otherworldly entities with which they are so obsessed.
