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Fables and Reflections

• Writer: Neil Gaiman
• Artists:
• Letterer:
• Colorist:
• Covers: Dave McKean
• Introduction: Gene Wolfe

Previously published in single magazine issues as Sandman 29, 30, 31, 38, 39, 40, 50, Sandman Special No. 1 and Vertigo Preview No.1 1992

Contents

• Fear of falling by Gaiman, Williams

  In his dreams, a man meets Dream and confronts his fears.

• Three Septembers and a January by Gaiman, McManus

  Dream gives Joshua Norton a dream of importance and by doing so is able to keep Norton from the realms of Despair, Desire and Delirium.

• Thermidor by Gaiman, Woch, Giordano

  Dream sends Lady Johanna Constantine to France to rescue his son from destruction.

• The Hunt by Gaiman, Eagleson, Locke

  Vassily tells his granddaughter a story from the Old Country.

• August by Gaiman, Talbot, Woch

  By spending a day in the market, disguised as a beggar, Augustus Caesar hides his thoughts and plans from the gods.

• Soft Places by Gaiman, Watkiss

  Lost in the desert, Marco Polo finds he has entered a soft place where he meets others from different times and different realms.

• The Song of Orpheus by Gaiman, Talbot, Buckingham

  The legend of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold within the Sandman mythos.

• Parliament of Rooks by Gaiman, Thompson, Locke

  Daniel Hall ventures into the Dreaming where he hears tales from Cain, Abel and Eve.

• Ramadan by Gaiman and Russell

  The Caliph of Bagdhad makes a bargain with Dream to save the beauty of his city.

"...the immediate pleasures of these stories to the first-time reader are many. It's the rare reader who does not respond to Gaiman's imaginative breath, coupled with his simple accuracy of observation."

-- Samuel R. Delany

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