During Dream's conversation with his aide Lucien, we learn that several major dreams have vanished from the Dreaming. Rose, when she sleeps, peeks directly into the Dreaming, inadvertently spying on the Dream Lord himself. Cut to a plane en route to England carrying Rose Walker and her mother, the unknowing daughter and granddaughter of long-time sleeper Unity Kinkaid. It begins with secret plottings between the androgynous Desire and the grotesque Despair, two of the younger Endless who seem to bear their brother Dream ill will. The bulk of the remaining collection is taken up by "The Doll's House" storyline. The story also sets the stage for later events in the series. Gaiman does an excellent job of capturing the oral style, peppering the tale itself with superstitions and lessons - the most important of which may be, never fall in love with powerful, god-like beings.
It recounts the oral tradition of an aboriginal tribe, and the story being told as a rite of passage for one young man is about an ancient race who lived there, and their queen who dared to love - and reject - Morpheus, the King of Dreams. The second tale in The Doll's House seems at first glance to be a filler. The bittersweet story of Death and the final moments of the humans she meets on her rounds is a good enough piece of writing that casual readers of the series - those who pick up a volume or two but don't collect the whole set - deserve to read it. I don't know why writer Neil Gaiman and/or DC Comics officials decided to print it again, but I'm not complaining. The second collection of Sandman books begins, oddly, with the same story which ended the first one. (DC Comics/Vertigo, 1990 collected from The Sandman issues 8-16, 1989-90)
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