3/27/2023 0 Comments Night call the sandman![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Madoc's works, "The Spirit Who Had Half Of Everything", takes its name from an unused chapter title in an early draft of James Branch Cabell's Figures of Earth. In the library of Dream, an unfinished book by Erasmus Fry, "The Hand of Glory", is seen in Season of Mists. Rose Walker is later seen reading Fry's book "Here Comes a Candle". Madoc's book "Her Wings" appears in a few other stories by Neil Gaiman including "The Last Temptation" as a sort of inside joke. Though the story "Calliope" was not criticized for unoriginality at the time of its release, its concept has apparently become a very popular one since a list of overused story ideas at Strange Horizons included "Creative person meets a muse (either one of the nine classical Muses or a more individual muse) and interacts with them, usually by keeping them captive." ( See Neil Gaiman's post about Strange Horizon's list). He complains that without her, he will have no ideas, so Morpheus causes him to never stop having them, which drives him to madness. Upon his release, he comes to rescue Calliope, and visits a terrible punishment upon Madoc. They direct her to Morpheus, who we are told was once her lover (this relationship is elaborated on later in the series), and who is currently similarly imprisoned. Madoc also takes her captive and has great success in writing, but Calliope calls upon the triad of witches known by many names, such as the Furies, the Kindly Ones or the Gracious Ladies, for help. Fry kept her imprisoned and regularly raped her, and her presence provided the inspiration for his successful novels. He strikes a deal with an elder writer, Erasmus Fry, for Calliope, one of the Muses of Greek mythology, whom Fry had captured earlier in his life, in exchange for a bezoar. This is the story of a frustrated author, Richard Madoc, whose first book has been released to critical acclaim but who simply cannot write a page of the promised follow-up. Like the sixth collection, Fables and Reflections, and the eighth, Worlds' End, Dream Country consists of short stories that do not have a common storyline running through them, though it has been argued that most Sandman stories are not entirely self-contained and are part of a larger story arc that encompasses the entire series.ĭream Country is the shortest of the eleven Sandman collections, featuring just four issues ("Calliope", #17, and "A Dream of a Thousand Cats", #18, both pencilled by Kelley Jones and inked by Malcolm Jones III "A Midsummer Night's Dream", #19, drawn by Charles Vess and coloured for the first time by computer colouring pioneer Steve Oliff and "Façade", #20, penciled by Colleen Doran and inked by Malcolm Jones III). It is preceded by The Doll's House and followed by Season of Mists. The collected edition also includes Gaiman's script for "Calliope". Lastly, this volume has the first story in which Dream does not appear, "Façade". Sandman #19, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", introduces Morpheus' creative partnership with William Shakespeare, and was the only comic book to win a World Fantasy Award. The second story, "A Dream of a Thousand Cats", is one of the most enduringly popular issues of the entire series. The first story, "Calliope", contains the first reference to Dream's son Orpheus, who will play an important role later in the series. This volume contains four independent stories. It was first issued in paperback in 1991, and later in hardback in 1995 with an introduction by Steve Erickson. It is written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Kelley Jones, Charles Vess, Colleen Doran and Malcolm Jones III, coloured by Robbie Busch and Steve Oliff, and lettered by Todd Klein. Neil Gaiman with material from William Shakespeareĭream Country is the third trade paperback collection of the comic book series The Sandman, published by DC Comics. Cover of The Sandman: Dream Country (1991), trade paperback collected editionArt by Dave McKean ![]()
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