All the stairways are the same stairway. Just as all doorways are ultimately the same. It doesn't take much coaxing to persuade any given stairway to lead to more than one place. 
- — Thessaly
Sandman Presents: The Thessaliad #2 is an issue of the series Sandman Presents: The Thessaliad (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 2002. It was published on February 13, 2002.
Synopsis for "The Long Crawl, or The Trouble With Riddle Games"
Realizing that she won't be able to get rid of Fetch any time soon, Thessaly reluctantly embarks on a quest to determine who hired him to attack her.
Appearing in "The Long Crawl, or The Trouble With Riddle Games"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Fetch (As a spirit) (Narrator)
Antagonists:
- The Egyptian Sphynx
- Lester the Second Gatekeeper (Single appearance; dies) (Also as an illusion)
- Old Gods (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
- Abel (Cameo)
- Angels (Cameo)
- George (Cameo)
- Ghosts
- Damned Souls
- Dead Boy Detectives
- Charles Rowland (Cameo)
- Edwin Paine (Cameo)
- Goblins (Cameo)
- Jumella (Cameo)
- Luz (Cameo)
- Mrs. Langingham (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
- Martin Tenbones (Cameo)
- Mummies (Cameo)
- Nefertiti (First appearance)
- New York City Police Department (Behind the scenes)
- Ogres
- Orpheus (As a spirit) (Cameo)
- Prinado
- Sandman (Garrett Sanford) (Cameo)
- Wilkinson
- Zombies
- Alexander the Great (Mentioned only)
- Hellhounds (Mentioned only)
- The Daughters of Gram (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Lucifer Morningstar (Mentioned only)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Locations:
- Multiverse (Behind the scenes)
- Allegorical Subway (First appearance)
- 2nd Challenge (First appearance)
- Allusion Street (Cameo)
- Association Station (First appearance)
- 3rd Challenge (Mentioned only)
- Analogy Avenue (Mentioned only)
- Conclusion Station (Mentioned only)
- Connections (Mentioned only)
- Decision Street (Mentioned only)
- Final Judgment (Mentioned only)
- Inference Avenue (Mentioned only)
- Revelation Street (Mentioned only)
- New Earth/"Living World"
- United States of America
- New York City (Flashback and main story)
- Thessaly's Apartment (In ruins)
- New York City (Flashback and main story)
- United States of America
- Annwn (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Hades (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Helheim (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Duat (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Allegorical Subway (First appearance)
Items:
Vehicles:
- Allegorical Commuter Lines Train (First appearance)
Concepts:
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in The Sandman Presents: Taller Tales.
Trivia
- Nefertiti and Thoth references the events of Lucifer (Volume 1).
See Also
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