Voice of the Fire was first published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz in 1996. The cover illustration was by Robert Mason; interior illustrations were by Cliff Harper. This same version was reprinted by Indigo in 1997. Both of these editions were in paperback. As this version is long out-of-print, we include the artwork from it here.
A new edition came out from Top Shelf in 2004. This version featured none of the original artwork, but was illustrated with color photographs by José Villarrubia. It also featured a new introduction by Neil Gaiman. A paperback edition of this version was released in 2009
Voice of the Fire establishes many of the themes and literary techniques that Moore would build upon in Jerusalem. Indeed, it could almost be considered “Book zero” of Jerusalem, which is why we are annotating the two on the same site.
Several chapters have significant twist endings. In order to mitigate spoilers, notes for those endings will be gathered under “Closing Remarks” for the relevant chapters.
>Go to VOTF annotations Chapter 1 Hobs Hog
>Go to Annotations Index
Annotations for Jerusalem by Alan Moore 
Read VOTF years ago and have just started the (so far excellent) audiobook. I am from Northampton and of a slightly younger age than Alan, but remember him well from the 70s as an intense and fascinating young man. It’s been wonderful to see his work gain a wide audience, while every other person I’ve known since who had any similar kind of spark was largely ignored. Great to see Pickle (who was/is truly special) immortalised as Herbert Sherbet in The Show, which I saw for the first time yesterday. I thought I could see surviving remnants of the musical theatre piece he was working on with his collaborator Jamie back in oooh, now let me see………, 1976. Anyway, looking forward to more stuff. I love stuff.
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