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The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes (1988-1989)
(Comic, THE SANDMAN 1-8)
Sleep of the Just; Imperfect Hosts; Dream a Little
Dream of Me; A Hope in Hell; Passengers; 24 Hours; Sound
and Fury; The Sound of Her Wings
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1991, 1995, ISBN 1-56389-011-9;
Cover Art: Dave McKean] |
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The Sandman: The Doll's House (1989-1990)
(Comic, SANDMAN 9-16)
Tales in the Sand; TDH 1: The Doll's House; TDH 2:
Moving In; TDH 3: Playing House; TDH 4: Men of
Good Fortune; TDH 5: Collectors; TDH 6: Into
the Night; TDH 7: Lost Hearts
"Rose Walker find more than she
bargained for in The Doll's House - lon lost relatives, a
serial killers convention and, ultimately, her true
identity. The Master or Dreams attempts to unravel the
mystery, unaware that the hand of another, far closer to
home, is pulling the strings."
[pb: Titan 1990, ISBN 1-85286-292-0; Cover Art: Dave
McKean] |
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The Sandman: Dream Country
(Comic, quite stand-alone within the Sandman series,
previously published as SANDMAN 17-20)
Calliope; A Dream of a Thousand Cats; A Midsummer
Night's Dream; Facade
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1991/1995, ISBN 1-56389-0,16-X;
Cover Art: Dave McKean] |
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The Sandman: Season of Mists
(Comic, SANDMAN 21-28)
"Ten thousand years ago, Lord
Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now,
his family, the immortal beings known as The Endless,
convince him that he must journey to Hell and rescue his
love. But Lucifer, the Lord of Hell, has sworn to destroy
Morpheus, and Lucifer's plans are subtle..."
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1992, ISBN 1-56389-041-0; Cover
Art: Dave McKean] |
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The Sandman: A Game of You (1991-1992)
(Comic, SANDMAN 32-37)
Slaughter on Fifth Avenue; Lullabies of Broadway; Bad
Moon Rising; Beginning to See the Light; Over the Sea to
Sky; I Woke Up and One of Us was Crying
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1993, ISBN 1-56389-089-5; Cover
Art: Dave McKean] |
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The Sandman: Fable's & Reflections
(Comic, SANDMAN 31,29,38,30,39,40,50, SANDMAN Special 1)
"Dreams of power, dreams of
darkness.
Follow Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, from the mists of
the past to the nightmares of the present as he touches
the lives of Haroun Al Raschid, king of ancient Baghdad,
Lady Johanna Constantine, spy and adventuress, Joshua
Norton, self-styled Emperor of the United States as well
as ravens, actors, explorers, storytellers, werewolves
and children in nine remarkable stories that will take
you beyond your wildest imaginings."
Fear of Falling; Three
Septembers and a January; Thermidor; The Hunt; August;
Soft Places; Orpheus; The Parliament of Rooks; Ramadan
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1993, ISBN 1-56389-105-0;
Cover Art: Dave McKean] |
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The Sandman: Brief Lives
(Comic, SANDMAN 41-49)
"Delirium, youngest of the
Endless, prevails upon her brother Dream to help her find
their missing sibling. Their travels take them through
the world of the waking until a final confrontation with
the missing member of the Endless and the resolution of
Dream's painful relationship with hi son, Orpheus, change
the Endless forever."
1.: Blossom for a lady; Rain in the
doorway; Not her sister; Want/not want; The view from the
backs of mirrors; Journal of the plague year; "The
number you have dialed"
2.: It always rains on the unloved; Wet dreams; A fishing
expedition; She kisses Wyverns; (the Disneyland analogy);
Dinner etiquette and chocolate love; Desire swears by the
first circle; "Things are changing"; What can
possiblygo wrong?
3.: The people who remember Atlantis; Concerning mammoths,
and falling walls; Who controls transportation; Bored,
she makes little frogs; Truth or consequences, and other
places; Ancestral voices prophesying; The dogs of art;
"When I dream, sometimes I remember how to fly"
4.: The other side of the sky; A bear and his shadow;
Departed secrets; "Twinkle's a nice word. So's
veridian."; Three keys; A treatise on optics; The
perils of smoking in bed?
5.: The things we do to be loved; Her hands do not go to
the moon; The driving instructor; Tiffany watches I;
White knights and/or pond-scum; Are dalmations flowers?;
Nancy displays her erudition; Wham bam thank you Ma'am;
Tiffany watches II
6.: Life isn't pleasant, petrified; The parting of the
ways; The trouble with mortals; Dreamings of meeting or
meeting of dreaming?; The trouble with gods; Mervyn sets
him straight; "Have you got anything with a happy
ending?"; Tempus frangit
7.: Cooking considered as one of the fine arts; "My
envelope isn't any good anymore"; Where all mazes
meet; The other side of the coin; Life as a glass of
bitter wine; Cherries are counted, and a bargain is made;
An unlikely growth
8.: Journey's end; Brains, a heart, a ride in a balloon;
Dinner; Something new; The illusion of permanence; A
wreath of bright stars; Echoes of darkness; Up. out.
9.: Farewells; Answered prayers; The flowers of romance;
Journey's end, The gates of horn; Things unlooked for;
Brief lives
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1994, ISBN 1-56389-138-7; Cover
Art: Dave McKean] |
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The Sandman: World's End
(Comic, SANDMAN 51-56)
"Caught in the vortex of a
reality storm,wayfarers from throughout time, myth and
the imagination converge on a mysterious inn. In the
tradition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, as the
travellers all wait out the tempest that rages around
them, they share stories of the places they've been, the
things they've sen... and those that they've dreamed."
World's End - Sequences at the Inn; A Tale of Two
Cities; Cluracan's Tale; Hob's Leviathan; The Golden Boy;
Cerements; Worlds' End
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1994, ISBN 1-56389-171-9; Cover
Art: Dave McKean] |
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The Sandman: The Kindly Ones
(Comic, SANDMAN 57-69)
"They were never called the
Furies. instead, frightened people called them the Kindly
Ones.
The were implacable, unstoppable in their mission of
vengeance; they would not rest until the crime they
sought to punish had been avenged; had been washed clean,
with blood.
Now Dream of the endless... his family, his friends and
his enemies find themselves caught in a dark conspiracy.
A child has been stolen. Someone is going to have to pay.
Someone is going to die. THE KINDLY ONES."
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1996, ISBN 1-56389-138-7; Cover
Art: Dave McKean] |
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The Sandman: The Wake
(Comic, SANDMAN 70-75)
"The king of dreams is dead -
long live the king of dreams. now ancient gods, old
friends and enemies gather, to pay tribute, and to
remember, in the strangest wake ever held. Theechoes of
the death reverberate: We see them touch a man who will
not die, and a chinese sage whose path into exile takes
him through a desert of dreams, and, at the end of his
life, William Shakespeare fulfills his side of a very
strange bargain."
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1997, ISBN 1-56389-279-0; Cover
Art: Dave McKean] |
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Death: The High Cost of Living (1993)
The Spirit of the Stairway; A Night to Remember; The
High Cost of Living; Death Talks About Life; A Brief
History of Death
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1994, ISBN 1-56389-133-6; Cover
Art: Dave McKean] |
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Death: The Time of Your Life (1993-1997)
Things You Just Do When You're Bored; Imaginary
Solutions; The Time of Your Life
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1997, ISBN 1-56389-333-9; Cover
Art: Dave McKean] |
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the Books of Magic (1990-1991)
(Comic, THE BOOKS OF MAGIC 1-4)
"Horror and humor, wonder and awe:
the knowledge of hidden things...
A spellbinding tale.
And enchanting experience.
An unforgettable journey.
Magic"
I: The Invisible Labyrinth; II: The Shadow
World; III: The Land of Summer's Twilight; IV: The
Road to Nowhere
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1993; ISBN 1-56389-082-8; Cover
Art: Richard Bruning/Brainstorm Unltd.] |
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Black Orchid (Graphic Novel)
(Illustrated by Dave McKean)
1. One Thing is Certain; 2. Going Down...;
3. Yes...
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1989; ISBN 0-930289-55-2;
Cover Art: Dave McKean] |
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Signal to Noise (Graphic Novel) |
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Mr. Punch - The Comical Tragedy or Tragical comedy or
Mr. Punch (Graphic Novel, illustrated by Dave McKean)
"'He threw the baby out of the
window. Then he battered his wife to death. Hr killed a
policeman who came to arrest him. He caused the hagman to
be hanged in his place, he murdered a ghost, and
outwitted the Devil himself.
'He never died.
'And Mister Punch still lives - to travel up and down the
countryside, amusing and delighting both old and young.'
In his grandfather's failing seaside arcade, a young boy
encounters a myterious Punch and Judy Man with a dark
past, and a woman who makes her living playing a mermaid.
As their lives intertwine and their stories unfold, the
boy is forced to confront family secrets, strange puppets
and a nightmarish world of violence and betrayal, in a
dark fable of childhood innocence and adult pain."
[pb: DC Comics, Vertigo 1994/1995; ISBN 1-56389-246-4;
Cover Art: Dave McKean] |
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Violent Cases (Graphic Novel, w/ Dave McKean, 1987 bw,
1991 colour)
"A narrator remembers his
childhood encounters with an old osteopath who claims to
have treated Al Capone. Gradually, the England of the
1969s and the Chicago of the 1920s begin to merge into a
beautifully drawn and hauntingly written tale of memory
and evil."
[pb: Titan 1998; ISBN 1-85286-959-3; Cover Art: Dave
McKean] |
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Angels & Visitations (Prose Collection) |
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The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (for
Children) |
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Neverwhere (1996/97)
"Richard Mayhew is a plain man
with a good heart - and an ordinary life that is changed
forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds
bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward
he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed - a
dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations
and sewer tunnels below the city - a world far stranger
and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known..."
[pb: Avon 1998, ISBN 0-380-78901-9; ] |
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Smoke and Mirros (1999, Short stories)
"[...] an elderly widow finds the
Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store;
under a bridge, a frightened little boy bargains for his
life with a very persistent troll; a stray cat fights and
refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his
unsuspecting adoptive family from unimaginable evil ..."
[pb: Headline 2000, ISBN 9-7472-6368-X; Cover Art: J. K.
Potter] |
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Stardust (1999)
"In the sleepy English
countryside at the dawn of the Victorian era, life moves
at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall - a secluded
hamlet named after the imposing stone barrier which
separates the town from a grassy meadow. Armed sentries
guard the only gap in the wall to keep the inquisitive
from wandering through, relaxing their vigil only once
every nine years when a market unlike any other comes to
the meadow.
Here in Wall, young Tristan Thorn has lost his heart to
the beautiful Victoria Forester. But Victoria is cold and
distant, as distant in fact as the star she and Tristan
see fall from the sky one crisp October evening. For the
coveted prize of Victoria's hand, Tristan vows to
retrieve the fallen star and deliver it to his beloved.
It is an oath that sends the lovelorn swain over the
ancient wall and propels him into a world that is
dangerous and strange beyond imagining ..."
[pb: Headline 1999, ISBN 0-7472-7419-3; Cover image:
Lalique] |
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American Gods (2001)
"After three years in prison,..."
[hc: Headline 2001, ISBN 0-7472-7423-1; Cover image: Potonica]
[tpb: Headline 2001, ISBN 0-7472-7417-7; Cover image: Photonica]
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Good Omens - The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of
Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990, with Neil Gaiman)
"According to the Nice and
Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally
reliable guide to the future - the world will end on
a saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...
CAVEAT:
Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous.
Do not attempt it in your own home."
[pb: Corgi, 1991; ISBN 0-552-13703-0; Cover Art: Josh
Kirby]
[pb: "Ein gutes Omen", Heyne, Germany, 1997 (translation
1991); ISBN 3-453-12677-7;Cover Art: Josh Kirby]
(Comment on behalf of German edition: If
you have any chance and ability to get and read the
original, go for it. The translation of Good Omens is
probably the worst work of this special translator I've
seen so far (he translated most German editions of Terry
Pratchett books).) |
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Don't Panic - Douglas Adams & The Hitch Hiker's
Guide to the Galaxy (by Neil Gaiman, 2nd and revised
edition 1993, 1st edition published as: 'Don't Panic: The
official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion' 1988)
"'IT'S
ALL DEVASTATINGLY TRUE -
EXCEPT THE BITS THAT ARE LIES'
This is the story of an ape-descended human called
Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck, in 1971, had
an idea.
It is also the story of a book called, at a very high
level of improbability, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to
the Galaxy; of the radio series that started it all;
the five book trilogy it comprises; and the computer game,
towel and television series that it, in its turn, has
spawned."
[pb: Titan 1993 (2nd revised edition), ISBN 1-85286-411-7;
Cover Art: 'Swarm Fish', Britstock-IFA] |
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The Sandman - Book of Dreams (1996)
Stories based on the Sandman series, edited by Neil
Gaiman and Ed Kramer
"Neil Gaiman, creator of the The
Sandman, DC Comics bestselling title, has invited the
most celebrated names in the fields of fantasy and horror
to enter and expand the Sandman's shadowy realm in this
spectacular collection of stories. Tori Amos, Clive
Barker, Steven Brust, Nancy A. Collins, Colin Greenland,
Barbara Hambly, Tad Williams and Gene Wolfe are just a
few of the luminaries to join Gaiman on his dark voyage.
Deeply disturbing as well as wildly entertaining, The
Sandman: Book of Dreams is a unique, modern classic -
essential reading for everyone who has ever felt the need
to explore the dark kingdom where we spend a full third
of our lives.
To be the master of Man's dreams is to face the darkest
of nightmares."
[pb: Voyager, Harper Collins 1997, ISBN 0-00-648278-3;
Cover Art: Dave McKeon [or so the cover inscription
claims, probably it's really well-known Dave McKean]]
(You want my opinion? I added this book
only for completeness. It doesn't fit in the series, it
lacks the depth and the humour. It's full of
inconsistencies, some of the stories have the touch of
first-ever-stories by the respective author. I don't say
that all short stories in this book are bad, but some are
very dull. In short, taken all together, I think it's not
a good book.) |
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Neil wrote some stories for Todd McFarlane's "Spawn".
The 'Angela Mini-Series' consists of Spawn #9 (published
in "Book 2") and Angela 1-3 (all 4 published in
"Angela's Hunt").
[pb: "Spawn - Book Two" , Image Comics/ Todd
McFarlane Productions 1993/1998, ISBN 1-887279-53-9;
Cover Art: Brent Ashe]
[pb: "Spawn - Angela's Hunt" , Image Comics/
Todd McFarlane Productions 1994/1998, ISBN 1-887279-09-1;
Cover Art: Bill Sienkiewicz] |
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Midnight Days (1999)
Collection of first reprints of stories originally
published in single magazine form.
"Jack in the Green", "Brothers",
"Shaggy God Stories" (1989, Swamp Thing Annual
#5);
"Hold Me" (1995, Hellblazer #27);
Sandman Midnight Theatre (1999, Sandman Midnight Theatre,
with Matt Wagner)
[pb: DC Comics, 1999; ISBN 1-56389-517-X;
Cover Art: Dave McKean]
(NB: The interesting stories are "Hold
Me" and rather more so "Sandman Midnight
Theater". The latter being kind of a Sandman spin-off
-- of both the original DC Sandman and Neil's Sandman,
that is. It was painted by Teddy Kristiansen, for
whatever that's worth to you.
I never got the hang of the Swamp Thing stories and just
don't get the hippy-mentality of "Brothers") |
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Script for Babylon 5 TV show - "Day of the Dead" |
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