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The Dreaming (1996-2001)
Series · 3 books · 1997-2003

Books in series

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#55

Taller Tales

2003

Meet Merv Pumpkinhead - Agent of Mystery, called in when good dreams go bad. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about dreams, and answer all those nagging queries about sex and death. Collects: The Dreaming #55, The Sandman Presents: Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of D.R.E.A.M. #1, Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams... But Were Afraid to Ask #1 Sandman Presents: The Thessaliad #1-4
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#1-8

The Dreaming

Beyond the Shores of Night

1997

Once more, the doors of the Sandman's realm, The Dreaming, are thrown wide, and we are invited to sample the many and varied delights and terrors of its worlds within worlds. Beyond the waking mind, where the lines between reality and fantasy blur, lies an infinite world of possibilities. The weird, the wonderful and the wicked all co-exist in a mystical landscape where the only limitation...is the imagination. The industry's top writers and artists are let loose as never before, exploring and expanding on themes, characters and situations from The Sandman series of graphic novels. Both darkly macabre and soaringly uplifting, this is adult fantasy fiction at its most sublime. Contains adult themes.
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#15-19, 22-25

The Dreaming

Through the Gates of Horn and Ivory

1998

Step through the gates of Horn and Ivory and enter the Kingdom of the Sandman... Join a white-collar worker who yearns for blue-collar freedom as he takes a special tour of the Dreaming with caretaker Mervyn Pumpkinhead; Spend New Year's Day with two expatriate faeries - Nuala, once a gift to Dream from Queen Titania, and Cluracan, disgraced ambassador to the Royal Court; Travel with two denizens of The Dreaming into the waking world: The Corinthian, a deadly nightmare made flesh, sent to correct the sins of his past; and Matthew the Raven who takes human form to face an old adversary; And learn of the exploits of one of Dream's former ravens, Aristeas of Marmora. Welcome to The Dreaming - the vast, unmapped realm of dreams, where your wildest fantasy may walk side by side with your greatest nightmares, where truth and illusion walk hand in hand - or sometimes claw in glove.

Authors

Bill Willingham
Bill Willingham
Author · 96 books

In the late 1970s to early 1980s he drew fantasy ink pictures for the Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert game rulebooks. He first gained attention for his 1980s comic book series Elementals published by Comico, which he both wrote and drew. However, for reasons unknown, the series had trouble maintaining an original schedule, and Willingham's position in the industry remained spotty for many years. He contributed stories to Green Lantern and started his own independent, black-and-white comics series Coventry which lasted only 3 issues. He also produced the pornographic series Ironwood for Eros Comix. In the late 1990s Willingham reestablished himself as a prolific writer. He produced the 13-issue Pantheon for Lone Star Press and wrote a pair of short novels about the modern adventures of the hero Beowulf, published by the writer's collective, Clockwork Storybook, of which Willingham was a founding member. In the early 2000s he began writing extensively for DC Comics, including the limited series Proposition Player, a pair of limited series about the Greek witch Thessaly from The Sandman, and most notably the popular series Fables

Peter Hogan
Peter Hogan
Author · 15 books
Peter Kenneth Hogan is an English writer and comics creator who started out as editor of cult political British comic Revolver in 1990–1991, before working for 2000 AD and American comic book publishers Vertigo and America's Best Comics.
Terry LaBan
Terry LaBan
Author · 2 books

Terry LaBan decided to be a cartoonist at the age of 6. He grew up to draw political cartoons and illustrations, create alternative comics series for Fantagraphics Books and Dark Horse comics, and write for DC Vertigo and Disney Egmont, where he spent 14 years writing Donald Duck comics. From 2001 to 2015, Terry and his wife Patty created the daily comic strip “Edge City”, which was syndicated by King Features. Terry has two kids and two cats, and lives just outside Philadelphia. Mendel the Mess-Up, his first middle grade graphic novel, will be published in December of 2024.

Alisa Kwitney
Alisa Kwitney
Author · 16 books

I'm the author of YA, graphic novels and novels for adults who still feel young, at least most of the time. Recent works include GILT, a graphic novel about time-traveling women of a certain age; Cadaver & Queen, a YA Feminist Frankenstein meets Grey's Anatomy tale, and Mystik U from DC Comics, which features Zatanna and other magical characters in their first year at college. I also co-host a Sandman podcast, The Endless, with Lani Diane Rich. My first novel, Till the Fat Lady Sings, is also about college and romance and eating disorders. (It was my thesis at Columbia University's MFA Program, where I felt like an outlier for liking comic books and romance as much as literature.) I was an editor at Vertigo, the mature/dark fantasy branch of DC Comics, before going freelance. (I've also written two hormonal werewolf books as Alisa Sheckley.) I live near the Vanderbilt Estate in Hyde Park, NY, with two dogs and a frightening number of books. aka Alisa Sheckley

Caitlín R. Kiernan
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Author · 46 books
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is an Irish-born American published paleontologist and author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten novels, series of comic books, and more than two hundred and fifty published short stories, novellas, and vignettes.
Peter Snejbjerg
Peter Snejbjerg
Author · 3 books
Peter Snejbjerg Nielsen is a Danish comic book artist. He was educated at the Kolding Kunsthåndværkerskole from 1983 to 1987. Some of his major works include the epic science-fiction/fantasy series Hypernauten, the adventure story The Hidden Protocol (Den Skjulte Protokol), the DC Comics title Starman, and various Vertigo titles
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