Earlier this year, HarperCollins Publishers offered Neil Gaiman‘s American Gods for free online for a month.

This experiment apparently was a great success, because now the publisher is offering another Gaiman title, Neverwhere, for free until September 23, 2008. Visit HP’s Neverwhere page to read it online or download a free copy of the book.

According to Gaiman’s official site, in order to download and open the PDF you must have Adobe Reader 6, Adobe Reader 7, or Adobe Digital Editions installed. The default PDF reader for the Mac will not be able to open it. Linux is right out. No other work-around should be necessary. Those in need of further support are invited to email hcebsupport-us@overdrive.com.

About Neverwhere …
Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job and a pretty but shrewish fiancee. Then one night he stumbles upon a girl lying on the sidewalk, bleeding. He stops to help her, and his life is changed forever.

Soon he finds himself living in a London most people would never have dreamed of “” a city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels.