BOOKS

Listed here are books that are set in the Sandman-universe. If you are looking for non-Sandman works by Neil Gaiman I refer to The Dreaming: The Neil Gaiman Page. If you notice an error or an omission on this page, please mail me.

Sandman

The 75-part comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by various artists. The series is available in these collections (in hardcover and in paperback editions):

The cover of Sandman #1, signed by Neil Gaiman

Some short Sandman stories by Neil Gaiman appeared in other comics and books:

Dave McKean's beautiful covers are collected in this book:

If you are not afraid to abandon the realm of comics, you can read

This book is not written by Neil Gaiman, although he edited the book together with Ed Kramer. It contains various stories about characters (including Dream and other Endless) that have appeared in the Sandman comic book series. Each story features a different writer.

Galleries

The Galleries are basically collections of illustrations by various artists, but sometimes they feature a story or at least an introduction.

Endless mini-series

Both Death and Destiny have stories of their own now. Rumors of a both a Delirium and a Despair mini-series have not yet been confirmed.

Sandman: Mystery Theatre

This series, written by Matt Wagner, is about Wesley Dodds, who puts criminals to sleep using gas (you can read about his connection to Morpheus in Preludes and Nocturnes). Dream appears in issues 1, 12, 22, and 25. There is cross-over between Sandman and Sandman: Mystery Theatre, featuring Dream and Wesley Dodds:

The Books of Magic

Tim Hunter

Neil Gaiman wrote a limited series titles The Books of Magic, about Timothy Hunter, a young boy who is destined to be the greatest magician of his time. Later The Books of Magic became on ongoing series. The stories often feature familiar characters from the Sandman comic book series. Currently available are:

Children's Crusade

In 1993-94, DC published a series of 7 inter-related Vertigo annuals, titled Children's Crusade. The first installment, Children's Crusade #1, is credited "by Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo". The last, Children's Crusade #2, has sections written by Gaiman, Alisa Kwitney and Jamie Delano, with art by Peter Snejbjerg.

The five installments in between are Black Orchid Annual #1 (featuring Suzy, the baby BO), Animal Man Annual #1 (featuring Maxine, AM's daughter), Swamp Thing Annual #7 (featuring Tefe), Doom Patrol Annual #2 (featuring Dorothy), and Arcane Annual #1 (pre-Books of Magic series) featuring Tim Hunter.

The story revolves around a group of children gone missing in an alternate-dimension land called Free Country -- part Pied Piper, part JM Barrie Neverland -- and the efforts of the Vertigo kids to keep it from being destroyed. The tale also stars a pair of unlikely detectives: Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland, the two dead boys from Sandman #25.

In Children's Crusade #1, Neil recaps the historical story of the Children's Crusade of 1512, when an "army of innocents" was recruited to fight in Jerusalem, but were sold into slavery instead (an event that also gave rise to a central motif in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5").

The Dreaming

After the conclusion of The Sandman, DC Comics started a new series, called The Dreaming. It features characters from The Sandman, and has different writers (not Neil Gaiman) and artists for each storyline. There is one collection available:

Neil Gaiman and Charless Vess' Stardust

Neil Gaiman wrote and Charles Vess illustrated this tale of a boy that journeys to Faerie to find a fallen star. It was originally published as a 4-part mini-series, but it is also available in collected form.

Guest appearances

Several Sandman characters have appeared in other series: