Before becoming a New York Times two-time best-selling author, Neil Gaiman revolutionized the comic-book medium with The Sandman. The most acclaimed and award-winning comic series of the last decade, The Sandman is a rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy, in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven. Critically acclaimed and award winning The Sandman set new standards for comics literature, and the ten volumes of the Sandman library are set as one of the high-watermarks of the field.

The Sandman: Endless Nights will be a delight to fans of Gaiman's work and newcomers to the graphic novel medium. Whether haunting, bittersweet, erotic or nightmarish, the seven stories in this book — one for each of the Endless siblings — reveal strange secrets and surprising truths about the Sandman and his family. Each story is illustrated by some of the greatest comics artists from around the world.

P. Craig Russell draws the story of DEATH and one day, two hundred years ago, on an island in the Venice lagoon — a day that goes on forever.

Milo Manara paints a story of love and DESIRE in ancient times as a beautiful young woman gets everything she wants...at a price.

Bill Sienkiewicz shows us who gets to enter DELIRIUM'S realm to perform a strange rescue mission.

Miguelanxo Prado takes us back for a DREAM of the dawn of time, when stars spoke and even the Endless were young.

Barron Storey creates fifteen heartrending portraits of DESPAIR.

Glenn Fabry draws a story of archaeologists uncovering the future and learning a little too much about DESTRUCTION.

Frank Quitely draws a final commentary on the DESTINY of these Endless Nights.

Neil Gaiman always promised he would return to the world of the Sandman. Now, aided by some of the finest international artists, he has returned to the world and characters he made famous, to bring us new dreams...and nightmares.

"[S]even gorgeously illustrated stories....Longtime comics fans will notice plenty of inside jokes...but most of this book is a red carpet...rolled out for Gaiman's prose readers to see his visions turned into lush, dramatic images." Publishers Weekly

"[Sandman]...works with the clarity of fairy tales and the subversive undertone of top-drawer modern fiction." Stephen King

Featuring the popular characters from the award-winning Sandman series, The Sandman: Endless Nights reveals the legend of the Endless, a family of magical and mythical beings who exist and interact in the real world. Born at the beginning of time, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction are seven brothers and sisters who each lord over their respective realms. In this highly imaginative book that boasts a diverse styles of breathtaking art, these seven peculiar and powerful siblings each reveal more about their true being as they star in their own tales of curiosity and wonder. SUGGESTED FOR MATURE READERS.

Neil Gaiman was born on the tenth of November 1960 in Portchester, England, which makes him at the moment of writing this, 42 years old, a Scorpio, and English. His novel American Gods won the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker Award. His most recent book was the children's novel Coraline, an international bestseller, which has already won several awards. In 2002 he wrote and directed a short film called "A Short Film About John Bolton," and next week Dave McKean starts directing a feature film they conceived, and which Neil wrote, for the Jim Henson company, a partly-animated film called Mirror-Mask. He still lives in a big old house near Minneapolis.