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

An amazing collection of dark and arresting imagery, DREAM THE COLLECTED DREAMING COVES presents the haunting artwork of this critically acclaimed and award-winning epic. Through these dynamic pieces, Dave McKean reflected the mesmerizing mythology, adult nature, and imaginative storytelling that made the story of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, such a groundbreaking series. This collection also includes insightful and revealing cover commentaries by THE SANDMAN author Neil Gaiman.

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.

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.