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. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. She is depicted as an attractive, down-to-earth young goth girl, very unlike the traditional personification of death, and spends the issue talking Dream out of his brief post-quest depression. This issue introduces a character who has become one of the series' most popular and prominent personalities: Dream's older sister Death. The collection ends with 'The Sound of Her Wings', an epilogue to the first story-arc.

However, thinking that it will kill Dream, Dee shatters the ruby, inadvertently releasing the power that Dream had stored in the ruby and restoring Dream to his full power. He has warped and corrupted the ruby, rendering Dream unable to use it, and with it he nearly tears apart the Dreaming. Doctor Destiny, a supervillain from the Justice League of America series. The ruby is in the possession of John Dee, a.k.a. Once that is recovered, Dream travels to hell to regain the helm from a demon, where he incurs the wrath of Lucifer (an enmity that will have major repercussions later in the series). The pouch is being kept by a former girlfriend of John Constantine's. The rest of the story concerns Dream's quest to recover his totems of power, which were dispersed following his capture: a pouch of sand, a helm and a ruby. Dream punishes Alex by cursing him to experience an unending series of nightmares. When the guards awake and break the seal Dream was in, he is then able to escape.

Finally, in 1988, Alex's guards grow careless and the guards watching him fall asleep in his presence, allowing Dream to use the sand from their dream to his benefit. Afterwards, his son Alexander becomes Dream's new captor.

Dream bides his time for decades until Burgess dies. Scarce FIRST PRINTING Hardcover edition, original FETUS cover! In 1916, Dream is captured and encased in a glass globe in a failed attempt by a fictional Edwardian magician (very much in the vein of Aleister Crowley) named Roderick Burgess to bind Death and attain immortality.

Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman