The Underground Man is Jackson’s first novel. It’s the story of an eccentric Victorian aristocrat who becomes increasingly frustrated by his own aging body and bewildered at the world about him.
He commissions the construction of a labyrynth of tunnels and retreats into them. But a childhood memory seems determined to haunt him and the image of a young boy begins to follow him around until finally he feels his only option is to tunnel back to the very source.
