Gaiman's Works Often Follow The Plots Of Classical And Mythical Narratives And Brief Lives, Like His Other Works, Can Often Look And Sound As Ponderous As A Bad Period Costume Movie. The Grimly Ironic Morpheus And His Whimsically Erratic Sister Travel Among The Mortals Of Earth In Search Of Their Brother And Ultimately Learn Something Of Destruction's Reasons For Abdicating. Destruction Abandoned His Duties 300 Years Ago (about The Time Of The Enlightenmentnt), Dropping Out Of Sight After A Prescient And Despairing Glimpse Of The Rise Of Human Reason And Its Own Destructive Proclivities. Morpheus, Lord Of Dreams And The Central Figure In The Series, Is Asked By His Sister, The Unstable And Touchingly Demented Delirium, To Help Locate Their Brother Destruction. Gaiman's Very Popular Sandman Series (this Is The Eighth Book In The Series) Continues With Another Tale Of The Endless, The Family Of Mythic Cosmic Beings That Govern The Psychic And Physical Realms Of Dream, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Destruction And Death. But Dream May Learn That The Cost Of Finding His Prodigal Sibling Is More Than He Can Bear.

Her comics work includes a celebrated run on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, several related works set within the world of the Dreaming (including D eath: At Death's Door, The Dead Boy Detectives and Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook), and, most recently, the adventures of the Beasts of Burden, co-created with writer Evan Dorkin.Dream's Youngest Sister, The Loopy Delirium, Convinces Him To Go On A Quest For Their Missing Brother, Destruction. Her Scary Godmother tales have been featured in graphic novels, comics, a play, and two animated holiday specials seen on the Cartoon Network, and she has published three volumes in her Magic Trixie series of children's books from HarperCollins. Jill Thompson is a writer, illustrator, and comic book artist. Originally from England, he now lives in the United States. Among his many awards are the Eisner, the Hugo, the Nebula, the World Fantasy, and the Bram Stoker. He is also the author of The Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Traded My Dad for Two Goldfish, both written for children.

His other books include Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, American Gods, and Stardust, (winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award as one of 2000's top novels for young adults) as well as the short story collections M Is for Magic and Smoke and Mirrors.

Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Medal-winning The Graveyard Book and Coraline, the basis for the hit movie.

Brief lives the sandman