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The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
by Neil Gaiman
We meet Baba Yaga and discover that Death has a splendid collection of floppy hats.
Reread 2022: A collection of short stories, tied together by Morpheus and the Dreaming.
The first chapter features the only emperor of the U.S. and explores how a little bit of madness can keep us from despair.
The next chapter follows Joanna Constantine retrieving Morpheus’ son’s head in the midst of the French Revolution (I noticed the reference to this in the Netflix series when Morpheus refers back to Joanna and the service she discharged).
The third story combines sleeping beauty, Baba Yaga, the Dreaming’s librarian, and werewolves into an adventure-quest-romance being told from grandfather to granddaughter. Fun.
Another story follows a Roman emperor and his dreams, an imperator who spends one day a year as a beggar so as to escape the notice of the gods.
The next story has Marco Polo lost in the desert, where he meets Fiddler’s Green and Dream.
This is followed by the son of Dream and Calliope: Orpheus. His catastrophic marriage to Eurydice, his trip to Hades, his gruesome dismemberment at the hands of the Baccheae.
A story about Daniel, Dream’s son with Lyta. He dreams of Eve and Cain and Abel and Matthew.
The final story is of the glory days of Baghdad, and the power of a well-told tale to inspire pride in one’s heritage.
Reread 2022: A collection of short stories, tied together by Morpheus and the Dreaming.
The first chapter features the only emperor of the U.S. and explores how a little bit of madness can keep us from despair.
The next chapter follows Joanna Constantine retrieving Morpheus’ son’s head in the midst of the French Revolution (I noticed the reference to this in the Netflix series when Morpheus refers back to Joanna and the service she discharged).
The third story combines sleeping beauty, Baba Yaga, the Dreaming’s librarian, and werewolves into an adventure-quest-romance being told from grandfather to granddaughter. Fun.
Another story follows a Roman emperor and his dreams, an imperator who spends one day a year as a beggar so as to escape the notice of the gods.
The next story has Marco Polo lost in the desert, where he meets Fiddler’s Green and Dream.
This is followed by the son of Dream and Calliope: Orpheus. His catastrophic marriage to Eurydice, his trip to Hades, his gruesome dismemberment at the hands of the Baccheae.
A story about Daniel, Dream’s son with Lyta. He dreams of Eve and Cain and Abel and Matthew.
The final story is of the glory days of Baghdad, and the power of a well-told tale to inspire pride in one’s heritage.