The Dreaming (1996) #41

"FOX AND HOUNDS PART TWO: THE BITTERSWEET SCENT OF OPIUM": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"FOX AND HOUNDS PART TWO: THE BITTERSWEET SCENT OF OPIUM"
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The Dreaming Vol 1 #41
October, 1999
Publisher	Vertigo
Cover Artists	Dave McKean
FOX AND HOUNDS PART TWO: THE BITTERSWEET SCENT OF OPIUM
Writers	Caitlin R. Kiernan
Pencilers	Al Davison
Inkers	Al Davison
Colorists	Daniel Vozzo
Letterers	Ellie de Ville
Editors	Shelly Bond Jennifer Lee
Previous Issue	The Dreaming # 40
Next Issue	The Dreaming # 42

He knew that he'd fallen in love with her, with the living light of her, with her appetite and passions.

—Narrator

The Dreaming #41 is an issue of the series The Dreaming (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1999.

Appearing in "FOX AND HOUNDS PART TWO: THE BITTERSWEET SCENT OF OPIUM"

Featured Characters:

• Lucien

Supporting Characters:

• Aubrey Beardsley (First full appearance)
• Christina Weston (First appearance chronologically) (First full appearance) (Possessed) (Dies)
• Dream (Morpheus) (Behind the scenes)
  • Jessamy the Raven
• William B. Yeats

Antagonists:

• Epithumia (As a spirit)

Other Characters:

• Angels (Statue only)
• Corinthian/"The Roisin Dubh" (Cameo)
• John Hathaway (First appearance chronologically)
• Prof. Thomas Huxley (Single appearance)
• Eve (Mentioned only)
• Ghosts (Mentioned only)
• God (Mentioned only)
• Mathilda Thorne (Mentioned only)
• Oscar Wilde (Mentioned only)
• Arthur Balfour (Mentioned only)
• Charles Darwin (Mentioned only)
• The Golden Dawn (Mentioned only)
• John Locke (Mentioned only)
• MacGregor Mathers (Mentioned only)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Mentioned only)
• Rudyard Kipling (Mentioned only)
• W.R. Woodman (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Waking World
  • 1894
    • England
      • Berkshire
        • Tappas Court
      • London
        • British Museum
        • College of Science, Fossils and Metaphysics
        • Sydenham
          • Sydenham Wells Park
        • Westminster
          • New Coventry Street
    • France
      • Paris (Mentioned only)
  • 1896
    • England
      • London
        • 3 Blenheim Road (Single appearance)
        • Victoria Station
        • Bedford Park (Mentioned only)
          • Yeats' Home (Mentioned only)
  • 1897
    • England
      • London
        • Chelsea
          • King's Road
            • William Yeats' Flat
        • Highgate Cemetery (Single appearance)
  • 19th Century
    • Ireland (Mentioned only)
      • Sligo (Mentioned only)
  • 1895
    • Egypt
      • Cairo (Mentioned only)
    • India (Mentioned only)
  • 1916 (Mentioned only)
    • England
      • Wych Cross (Mentioned only)
• Faerie
  • Avalon (Mentioned only)
• The Dreaming (Mentioned only)
  • Palace of Dreams
    • Library of Dreams (Mentioned only)

Items:

• "Magdalene Grimoire"
• "The Rose"

Concepts:

• Magic
  

Notes

• Although it is not clearly stated in the issue, the "spirit" Epithumia, who possesses Christina, is actually Desire of the Endless.
  • Desire's "real name", Epithumia, was originally revealed in Sandman Special #1.
• Despite being only implied in the epilogue, the terrible event, which Christina foreshadows thanks to Epithumia, is Morpheus being imprisoned by Roderick Burgess in Sandman (Volume 2) #1.

Trivia

• The Tappas Court party was first shown in The Dreaming #20.
• Lucien and William Keats talking in the latter's Chelsea apartment was first shown in The Dreaming #35.
• John Hathaway, the British Museum curator, first appeared (and died) in Sandman (Volume 2) #1.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the The Dreaming series

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