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The Sandman (DC Black Label)
The Sandman: Book Five
Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman continues here, filled with the art from the medium's most gifted talent.
Sandman Book Five collects Sandman Midnight Theatre, Sandman Endless Nights, and Sandman: The Dream Hunters!
Sandman Midnight Theatre takes place in the late 1930's. A mysterious suicide leads the Golden Age Sandman (Wesley Dodds) to a dark circle of mystics known as the Order of Ancient Mysteries. The Order holds a number of disturbing secrets...and the greatest of these is Morpheus, the imprisoned Dream King!
In Sandman Endless Nights Neil Gaiman explores the seven brothers and sisters of the Endless, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction.
Sandman: The Dream Hunters is a love story, set in ancient Japan. Telling the story of a humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox who find themselves romantically drawn together. As their love blooms, the fox learns of a devilish plot by a group of demons to steal the monk's life. With the aid of Morpheus, the King of All Night's Dreamings, the fox must use all of her cunning and creative thinking to foil this evil scheme and save the man that she loves.
Sandman Book Five collects Sandman Midnight Theatre, Sandman Endless Nights, and Sandman: The Dream Hunters!
Sandman Midnight Theatre takes place in the late 1930's. A mysterious suicide leads the Golden Age Sandman (Wesley Dodds) to a dark circle of mystics known as the Order of Ancient Mysteries. The Order holds a number of disturbing secrets...and the greatest of these is Morpheus, the imprisoned Dream King!
In Sandman Endless Nights Neil Gaiman explores the seven brothers and sisters of the Endless, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction.
Sandman: The Dream Hunters is a love story, set in ancient Japan. Telling the story of a humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox who find themselves romantically drawn together. As their love blooms, the fox learns of a devilish plot by a group of demons to steal the monk's life. With the aid of Morpheus, the King of All Night's Dreamings, the fox must use all of her cunning and creative thinking to foil this evil scheme and save the man that she loves.
344 pages, Paperback
Published February 14, 2023
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Displaying 1 - 16 of 16 reviews
March 11, 2023
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS. This had one of my new favorite sandman stories I’ve ever read! From the gorgeous art to the witty writing it was fucking amazing to read. This was my last book of the series and I’m so glad it ended with a bang for me. I would highly recommend everyone at least give this one a read even if it’s just for dream hunters!!!
October 11, 2023
When i say this man can write, THIS MAN CAN WRITE! Heavens🙇♀️🙇♀️
April 8, 2024
Midnight Theatre: Despite the pretty cool cover and the interesting enough art, I was very “meh” on this one. Not my style, really. All mystery and blackmail and exactly one semi-interesting character.
The Dream Hunters: Yoshitaka Amano’d art is frigging gorgeous. I love it, so so much. Seeing The Dreaming rendered this way is just amazing.
The story was fantastic as well. Gaiman’s very good at that old-school, fairy-tale vibe. This had it in spades.
Endless Nights: Feeling mostly “meh” about this little series. I do appreciate short stories, but reading them one after the other like this just isn’t my jam.
Green Lantern Lady falling at complete random for her own sun was… stupid. Hate it. I did think the art was really nice, though.
Not gonna lie, I skimmed most of Despair’s chapter. Just don’t need that shit in my head right now. Did not understand what was going on in Delirium’s bit, either. So there’s that.
The Dream Hunters: Yoshitaka Amano’d art is frigging gorgeous. I love it, so so much. Seeing The Dreaming rendered this way is just amazing.
The story was fantastic as well. Gaiman’s very good at that old-school, fairy-tale vibe. This had it in spades.
Endless Nights: Feeling mostly “meh” about this little series. I do appreciate short stories, but reading them one after the other like this just isn’t my jam.
Green Lantern Lady falling at complete random for her own sun was… stupid. Hate it. I did think the art was really nice, though.
Not gonna lie, I skimmed most of Despair’s chapter. Just don’t need that shit in my head right now. Did not understand what was going on in Delirium’s bit, either. So there’s that.
March 13, 2023
This volume has Midnight Theater #1 The Dream Hunters (prose edition) and Endless Nights. And loved reading more Sandman and absolutely love Dream Hunters, such a beautiful story. If you enjoy reading the other 4 volumes I recommend this volume for more Sandman.
May 12, 2023
Dream Hunters is een top tier Sandman story en de illustraties behoren tot de mooisten in de serie. Midnight Theatre wasn't for me. Endless Nights is niet altijd even geslaagd, maar wel consistent interessant
March 3, 2023
A wonderful collection of illustrated stories, all compelling, and all beautifully drawn.
September 10, 2023
I liked Endless Nights, it was lovely.
October 9, 2023
"...When the moon was at its darkest, he had asked the three women in the dilapidated house the question that troubled him the most. The wind blew through the broken screens, and howled in the rotting eaves. 'How can I find peace?' he asked the oldest of the women. 'There is peace in the grave,' she told him, 'and in a momentary peace in the contemplation of a fine sunset.' She was naked, and her breasts hung like empty bags upon her chest, and on her face she had painted the face of a demon."
"Others say no, and that even in dreams and in death a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in different worlds they will forever stay. But dreams are strange things, and none of us but the King of All Night's Dreaming can say if they are true or not, nor of what they are able to tell any of us about the times that are still to come."
"Others say no, and that even in dreams and in death a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in different worlds they will forever stay. But dreams are strange things, and none of us but the King of All Night's Dreaming can say if they are true or not, nor of what they are able to tell any of us about the times that are still to come."
November 26, 2025
This is the first Sandman book I've read. I read the reviews and I think it would have seemed more significant if I knew anything about comic books or superheroes. I enjoyed it well enough, but I thought a number of times, "why is she naked in this frame?" There was a lot of nubile young female nudity and scanty clothing in this book. I guess that's just Neil Gaiman's aesthetic? Are all the Sandman books like that? The author's recent actions towards his children's nanny cast the sexuality in this book in a rather dark light. I don't like how Neil Gaiman writes women. They were frequently sexualized and not full characters. And why did they have to be naked so much? This book wasn't my thing.
September 21, 2023
I have thoroughly enjoyed the Sandman series. I love Gaiman's tendency to have Dream randomly pop up in stories that, otherwise, seem completely unrelated.
I enjoyed that there was a story for each of the Endless at the end. Was a nice peek into each of them.
I enjoyed that there was a story for each of the Endless at the end. Was a nice peek into each of them.
May 2, 2024
A beautiful series of stories surrounding the Endless. I got lost in some of the illustrations, they were so beautiful. The stories about the other Endless have left me needing all their stories now.
August 23, 2023
Probably one of the better volumes tbh. Amano art was the best in the entire series and the short stories were so good.
Shame the first chapter sucks ass
Finally fkn done Sandman
Shame the first chapter sucks ass
Finally fkn done Sandman
December 17, 2023
3.5 rounded down.
I liked all of the stories in this collection but I didn't particularly love them. I think as a collection of standalones they allowed us to explore a little more of the Endless. Particularly in Endless Nights, I enjoyed getting a little bit of Dream's siblings from their own perspectives as well as alluding to the future coming as eternity moves onwards. But I wasn't particularly emotionally engaged with any of them.
All in all, a good light read.
I liked all of the stories in this collection but I didn't particularly love them. I think as a collection of standalones they allowed us to explore a little more of the Endless. Particularly in Endless Nights, I enjoyed getting a little bit of Dream's siblings from their own perspectives as well as alluding to the future coming as eternity moves onwards. But I wasn't particularly emotionally engaged with any of them.
All in all, a good light read.
March 27, 2023
This is the kind of book that makes you realize just how much you missed something you adore. It's been a few months since I've read any Sandman, since I don't currently have access to my copies, and I was so excited to get my hands on this because I'd really felt like I was lacking it in my life. I devoured every single issue, to say the least. I literally just rewatched the show with a friend, and it made me realize I really missed reading Sandman, and this just helped reassert my love for it and the comics especially.
I love the variety of artists and how well put-together each story was, and how it expanded the world of the Sandman. I think I would genuinely read anything set in this universe, it's just incredible. My favourite has to be The Dream Hunters though, the art was astounding and I especially love its depiction of Dream. I hope they turn that one into an episode for the show, it'd be so stunning. Highly recommended, it's a lovely addition to the original run.
I love the variety of artists and how well put-together each story was, and how it expanded the world of the Sandman. I think I would genuinely read anything set in this universe, it's just incredible. My favourite has to be The Dream Hunters though, the art was astounding and I especially love its depiction of Dream. I hope they turn that one into an episode for the show, it'd be so stunning. Highly recommended, it's a lovely addition to the original run.
March 28, 2023
I enjoy his writing, but there was very little of Dream in the first few stories and not much of him in the last of it. Not saying the stories weren't entertaining but it was missing the Dream aspect I enjoyed from the other books. I enjoyed the monk tale.
March 16, 2023
4.5 stars
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