There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of story. Older than humankind itself, he inhabits -- along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless sisters and brothers -- the realm of human consciousness. His powers are myth and nightmare -- inspirations, pleasures, and punishments manifested beneath the blanketing mist of sleep.
Surrender to him now.
A stunning collection of visions, wonders, horrors, hallucinations, and revelations from Clive Barker, Barbara Hambly, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, Nancy A. Collins, and sixteen other incomparable dreamers -- inspired by the groundbreaking, bestselling graphic novel phenomenon by Neil Gaiman.
Contents:
- Preface - essay by Frank McConnell
- Masquerade and High Water - short story by Colin Greenland
- Chain Home, Low - novelette by John M. Ford
- Stronger Than Desire - short story by Lisa Goldstein
- Each Damp Thing - novelette by Barbara Hambly
- The Birth Day - short story by B. W. Clough
- Splatter - short story by Will Shetterly
- Seven Nights in Slumberland - short story by George Alec Effinger
- Escape Artist - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- An Extra Smidgen of Eternity - short story by Robert Rodi
- The Writer's Child - short story by Tad Williams
- Endless Sestina - poem by Lawrence Schimel
- The Gate of Gold - short story by Mark Kreighbaum
- A Bone Dry Place - short story by Karen Haber
- The Witch's Heart - novelette by Delia Sherman
- The Mender of Broken Dreams - short story by Nancy A. Collins
- Ain't You 'Most Done? - novelette by Gene Wolfe
- Valóság and Élet - short story by Steven Brust
- Stopp't-Clock Yard - novelette by Susanna Clarke
- Afterword: Death - essay by Tori Amos