num_pages: 293
description: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman sold over 12 million copies for DC Comics and internationally during its seven-year run and is the most successful, most imitated, and most honored adult comic of all time. Winner of the first World Fantasy Award ever given to a comic, Gaiman's moody, twisted tales made Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming, an icon recognized across the globe.Now Neil Gaiman has moved on to an even bolder undertaking. He has invited the most celebrated names in the fields of fantasy and horror to enter and expand the Sandman's shadowy realm in a spectacular collection of stories. Gene Wolfe, Clive Barker, Nancy A. Collins, Tori Amos, Tad Williams, Barbara Hambly, and Steven Brust are but a few of the superstars assembled here, making this one of the most breathtaking assemblies of talent in publishing history.Now millions can appreciate Neil Gaiman's award-winning creation as interpreted by some of the most imaginative minds in modern literature. The stories in The Sandman: Book of Dreams range in setting from battlefield to deathbed, from a ghost-ridden cellar to a hotel convention of serial killers, from a celebration in a medieval castle to a bloody downtown "rave." The stories tell of those who never dream, and of those that outlive their dreamers; of Morpheus and his elder sister, Death (and their siblings Destruction, Desire, and Destiny); of murderous Cain and trusting Abel; of Matthew and Lucien and Fiddler's Green...Deeply disturbing as well as wildly entertaining, The Sandman: Book of Dreams is a unique, modern classic - essential reading for everyone who has ever felt the need to explore the dark kingdom where we spend a full third of our lives. And so, welcome to the Dreaming. You've been here before. You just don't remember.Yet.
language: English
title: The Sandman: Book of Dreams
titlecomplete: The Sandman: Book of Dreams
genres: Fantasy, Anthologies, Short Stories, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Comics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Mythology, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 8847
series: The Sandman
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Anthology/Collection
publisher: Harper Voyager