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Original Title:	The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
ISBN:	1840232048 (ISBN13: 9781840232042)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sandman #One-shot
Characters:	Dream of the Endless, Matthew the Raven, Cain (DC Comics), Abel (DC Comics), Mildred (Hecatae), Mordred/Morganna (Hecatae), Cynthia (Hecatae)
Setting:	Japan
Literary Awards:	Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative (2000), Hugo Award Nominee for Best Related Work (2000), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Comics-Related Book (2000)

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (The Sandman #One-shot)

Neil Gaiman

Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

Rating: 4.39 | 18215 Users | 617 Reviews

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Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke. At the same time, while preparing for the Sandman 10th anniversary, he met Yoshitaka Amano, his artist for the 11th Sandman book. Amano is the famed designer of the Final Fantasy game series. The product of Gaiman's immersion in Japanese art, culture, and history, Sandman: Dream Hunters is a classic Japanese tale (adapted from "The Fox, the Monk, and the Mikado of All Night's Dreaming") that he has subtly morphed into his Sandman universe. Like most fables, the story begins with a wager between two jealous animals, a fox and a badger: which of them can drive a young monk from his solitary temple? The winner will make the temple into a new fox or badger home. But as the fox adopts the form of a woman to woo the monk from his hermitage, she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, in far away Kyoto, the wealthy Master of Yin-Yang, the onmyoji, is plagued by his fears and seeks tranquility in his command of sorcery. He learns of the monk and his inner peace; he dispatches demons to plague the monk in his dreams and eventually kill him to bring his peace to the onmyoji. The fox overhears the demons on their way to the monk and begins her struggle to save the man whom at first she so envied. Dream Hunters is a beautiful package. From the ink-brush painted endpapers to the luminous page layouts--including Amano's gate-fold painting of Morpheus in a sea of reds, oranges, and violets--this book has been crafted for a sensuous reading experience. Gaiman has developed as a prose stylist in the last several years with novels and stories such as Neverwhere and Stardust, and his narrative rings with a sense of timelessness and magic that gently sustains this adult fairy tale. The only disappointment here is that the book is so brief. One could imagine this creative team being even better suited to a longer story of more epic proportions. On the final page of Dream Hunters, in fact, Amano suggest that he will collaborate further with Mr. Gaiman in the future. Readers of Dream Hunters will hope that Amano's dream comes true. --Patrick O'Kelley

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Title	:	The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (The Sandman #One-shot)
Author	:	Neil Gaiman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	2000 by Titan Books Ltd. (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Fantasy. Comics. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics

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A dreamy masterpiece! This TPB is the original prose novella written by Neil Gaiman with illustrations of Yoshitaka Amano. Dont get it confused with the comic book format version featuring artwork of P. Craig Russell. DREAM TEAM You would not seek to question a poem, or a falling leaf, or the mist on the mountaintop, Why, then, do you question me? You may be aware of who is Neil Gaiman, the renowed British writer that got fame precisely with The Sandman comic book series, but also he has

This is more of an illustrated story than a graphic novel. Amano's artwork and the Japanese aesthetic rein in Gaiman's excessive tendency to throw in the kitchen sink, in this telling, retelling actually, of the story of the fox and the monk. The story is wonderful and the artwork even more so. Amano really should have gotten top billing since Gaiman is basically just retelling a Japanese fairy tale with some Sandman flourishes.Thoroughly enjoyable although not really part of the Sandman canon.

A retelling of a Japanese fairy tale, with Gaiman's Sandman characters grafted onto certain roles. This is not a comic book but an illustrated novella. It's a decent story, though it isn't up to the caliber of his best Sandman stories. What distinguishes this book most is the lovely multi-page spreads of Yoshitaka Amano's artwork. Worth having if you are a Sandman or Amano fan.

Beautifully written and illustrated. The Sandman: The Dream Hunters was published for the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the series in 1999. It was written as a prose story because the artist Gaiman chose, Yoshitaka Amano, does not draw comics. This is probably one of my favorite short stories in Sandman, a love story set in premodern Japan. The characters are a monk, a fox-spirit who falls in love with him, and an onmyoji (magician) who seeks to destroy the monk for his own purposes. The

I particularly loved the Japanese-inspired art and mythology. So pretty. It would be easy to believe that somehow the Sandman mythos could be part of Japanese mythological history. It feels real.Library copy

In one word: Beautiful. This book brings together all the fantasy of The Sandman with the ancient magic of a japanese legend. If you read it long enough, you might even feel that you are reading some ancient scroll, with real ancient japanese drawings.

This is a masterpiece.