num_pages: 384
description: An entrancing collection of stories based on the World Fantasy Award-winning Sandman comic book series by Neil Gaiman—the basis for the highly anticipated Netflix series and hailed by the  Los Angeles Times Magazine  as “the greatest epic in the history of comic books”—including contributions from Tori Amos, Clive Barker, Susanna Clarke, Tad Williams, and Gene Wolfe,  among other celebrated names in fantasy and horror There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of story. Older than humankind itself, he inhabits -- along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless sisters and brothers -- the realm of human consciousness. His powers are myth and nightmare -- inspirations, pleasures, and punishments manifested beneath the blanketing mist of sleep. Surrender to him now. The Book of Dreams is a stunning collection of visions, wonders, horrors, hallucinations, and revelations from twenty-one incomparable dreamers – inspired by the groundbreaking, bestselling graphic novel phenomenon by Neil Gaiman.
language: English
title: The Sandman: Book of Dreams
titlecomplete: The Sandman: Book of Dreams
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Graphic Novels, Anthologies, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Mythology, Fantasy, Comics
ratings_count: 8847
series: The Sandman
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Anthology/Collection
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks