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ISBN:	1563891700 (ISBN13: 9781563891700)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sandman #8
Characters:	Dream of the Endless, Ted Grant, Prez Rickard
Literary Awards:	British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology/Collection (1996)

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A "reality storm" draws an unusual cast of characters together. They take shelter in a tavern, where they amuse each other with their life stories. Although Morpheus is never a focus in these stories, each has something to say about the nature of stories and dreams. With an introduction by Stephen King. SUGGESTED FOR MATURE READERS. Collecting The Sandman #51–56

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Title	:	World's End (The Sandman #8)
Author	:	Neil Gaiman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	July 16th 1999 by Vertigo (first published July 1st 1995)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fantasy. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics

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Stephen King's introduction is really useful for understanding what is going on in this volume, where the brothers and sisters of the Endless Family play a minimal or background role. As King says, the stories in this volume are like nesting dolls, Russian Matryoshka dolls, stories within stories within stories. The model for the setting is a kind of fantasy Chaucer's Tales, a bunch of people and creatures thrown together at an inn that is not in space or time, called World's End, where they

Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

I wish this story never ended. This time I could forgive even the lack of Morpheus.

Definitely one of the best, one of the roundest volumes; it is a set of six stories told at an inn, while the universe goes through a reality storm. And I don't think I can tell a lot more about the reality storm without spoilers, but definitely, the stories are worth their salt; Gaiman shows here that he's an amazing story teller, and he knows how to dive into fantasy amazingly well. As the introduction said, the best part about it is that he doesn't make it more complicated, more complex than

One of the top three in the series so far for sure. (In my own opinion anyway)

Just pure perfection. Lyrical and profound in its storytelling. This volume broke my heart into a million tiny pieces. All I'm left with are the jagged pieces of stories and an all encompassing awe of Neil Gaiman's boundless imagination and writing.

3 and 1/2 starsThe blurb on the back states that this volume is in the tradition of The Canterbury Tales, but The Decameron is a more apt allusion. The storytellers aren't in a villa waiting out the Black Death; but they are in an inn, seeking refuge from a mysterious storm (or storms) that has deposited each one of them there: perhaps they too are facing Death.I wasn't engrossed in any of the stories until I arrived at the tale of a necropolitan (yep, he lives and works in a necropolis). And