Collects nine standalone stories from Neil Gaiman's Sandman, comprising all the issues initially published under the Distant Mirrors and Convergences labels, as well as the Orpheus special and a seven-page one-shot from Vertigo Preview #1.
Introduction by novelist Gene Wolfe.
Issues
Stories are drawn from the following:
- Vertigo Preview #1 ("Fear of Falling")
- Sandman (Volume 2) #31 ("Three Septembers and a January")
- Sandman (Volume 2) #29 ("Thermidor")
- Sandman (Volume 2) #38 ("The Hunt")
- Sandman (Volume 2) #30 ("August")
- Sandman (Volume 2) #39 ("Soft Places")
- Sandman Special #1 ("The Song of Orpheus")
- Sandman (Volume 2) #40 ("The Parliament of Rooks")
- Sandman (Volume 2) #50 ("Ramadan")
Notes
- Unique among Sandman collections, no attempt is made to arrange the stories by publication order or in-story chronology; indeed, "Fear of Falling" is placed before even Wolfe's introduction and the contents page.
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