Presents the Sandman's origin story from the birth of a galaxy to the moment that Morpheus is captured.

"Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman continues here, filled with the art from the medium's most gifted talent. This volume picks up where the last left off in Morpheus' ongoing saga as he travels through the dreaming. This book collects The Sandman #38-56 as well as tales from Vertigo Preview #1. Lose yourself in Gaiman's fantastic worlds and continue the fantasy with The Sandman Book 3"--

Morpheus of the Endless must journey into Hell to rectify a ten-thousand-year-old injustice. But that means traveling through the realm of Lucifer, who after their last encounter swore he would destroy the King of Dreams...

"This volume picks up where the last left off in the story of the Kindly Ones--a conflagration of nightmarish proportions that will affect the future of the Endless and the fate of the Dreaming forever! Friends, foes and unexpected betrayers return throughout this incredible collection!"--

Now a Netflix TV series, the first volume of Neil Gaiman's graphic novel masterpiece returns in a new edition! One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era. Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven. The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes Nocturnes collects issues #1-8 of the original run of The Sandman, beginning an epic saga unique in graphic literature and introducing readers to a dark and enchanting world of dreams and nightmares--the home of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, and his kin, the Endless. The stories introduce Dream in the opening arc More than Rubies, followed by the debut of fan-favorite character Death in The Sound of Her Wings. With The Sandman television adaptation debuting on Netflix, and the audio drama unfolding on Audible, explore the comic book classic that started it all!

Endless Nights is an original graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman as a follow-up to his Sandman series. The book is divided into seven chapters, each devoted to one of the Endless, a family of brothers and sisters who are physical manifestations of the metaphysical concepts Dream, Death, Desire, Destruction, Delirium, Despair, and Destiny.

When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus, the immortal king of dreams, stories, and the imagination, is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three "tools" that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence. As the multi-threaded story unspools, The Sandman descends into Hell to confront Lucifer, chases rogue nightmares who have escaped his realm, and crosses paths with an array of characters from DC comic books, ancient myths, and real-world history, including: Inmates of Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, Doctor Destiny, the muse Calliope, the three Fates, William Shakespeare, and many more.

Older and more powerful than the gods themselves, the Endless are a dysfunctional family of cosmic beings that have ruled over the realms of dream, desire, despair, destiny, destruction, death, and delirium since the beginning of time. But three hundred years ago, one of the mythical beings gave up his duties and left his realm, never to be seen again. BRIEF LIVES tells the tales of Delirium and older brother Dream on a mission to find their missing sibling, as they encounter immortal humans and various deities while trying to locate the prodigal Destruction. But as their adventure draws Dream into a final, tragic confrontation with his son Orpheus, the eternal being learns the true meaning of fate and consequences.

The Dream Hunters is a novella with a story tangential to The Sandman series. Inspired by Japanese folklore, Gaiman tells of a fox who wins a monk's temple to use as her den, falls in love with the cleric and bargains with the Japanese Bringer of Dreams to protect the monk from his enemy, the lord of a neighboring estate.

A collection of eight comics that introduce the series' lead character, the Sandman, Lord of Dreams.