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First British Edition Titan Books (2002) |
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Murder Mysteries
With P. Craig Russell
From the looks of the solitary man on the park bench, one would never guess his origins - a former angel, descended from the heavens and ages. He’s appeared on Earth to tell a story that must be heard - a story of when Earth was still a design in the eyes of God, and sin was not yet known, and of the first and most unspeakable crime in God’s newly unfolding universe.
A murder in paradise.
Award-winning artist P. Craig Russell adapts the acclaimed short story by novelist Neil Gaiman to tell a divine murder mystery you won’t soon forget.
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First British Edition Titan Books (2001) |
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The Quotable Sandman
Memorable lines from the acclaimed series
Illustrations by a remarkable ensemble of artists
Dreams in my pocket...
‘Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.’
‘So what I want to know is, when I’m asleep, do I really remember how to fly? And forget how when I wake up? Or am I just dreaming I can fly?’
‘It is the fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.’
Pearls of wisdom from the series described by Norman Mailer as ‘comic strip for intellectuals.’ Beautifully illustrated and presented, this hardback makes an ideal gift for the legion of Sandman fans.
Peppered with memorable and quotable lines from the creator who elevated comics to a literary form, The Quotable Sandman features full colour illustrations by some of the biggest names in comics and fantasy art.
The perfect companion to a truly ground-breaking graphic novel series. No true aficionado should be without it.
Neil Gaiman is the most critically acclaimed graphic novel writer of today. His work includes the successful Sandman graphic novel series the BBC series, Neverwhere, and the novel Stardust.
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Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
Take a trip back into the history of Neil Gaiman's dark fantasy worlds...
An incredible collection of rare and previously unseen material, which shows the true versatility of the comics creator who is credited with turning comic strip into critically-acclaimed literature.
Gathered from Gaiman's long career, and with unprecedented access having been given to DC's archive, it includes his early work on Hellblazer, Swamp Thing and Sandman Midnight Theatre, as well as Gaiman's original submission for Swamp Thing (previously unseen).
Published to coincide with the 10th Anniversary of The Sandman, this is an unique and lasting testament to one of the most amazing talents in comics today.
With contributions by:
Matt Wagner
Richard Piers Rayner Dave Mckean Mike Hoffman Mike Mignola Steve Bissette & John TotlebenTeddy Kristiansen
In Sandman Midnight Theatre, the Golden Age Sandman investigates an age-old mystery - and, for the only time, comes face-to-face-with his namesake, Dream of the Endless.
In Hold Me, trenchcoated mystic John Constantine faces a ghost haunted by a very modern kind of loneliness.
In Brothers, the Swamp Thing's extended family meets a flower-power-loving Geek - and the decidedly unamused U.S. government.
In Shaggy God Stories, a half-sane plant-man plumbs the mysteries of existence.
And in the never-before-published Jack-In-The-Green, the Swamp Thing of another time confronts the horrors of his world - large and small.
Suggested for mature readers
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First British Edition Titan Books (1999) |
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The Sandman: the Dream Hunters
See Review by
Jay Russell
- one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
The first new Sandman title in three years…
Neil Gaiman¹s extraordinary Sandman saga, which culminated in the best-selling Sandman: The Wake, is the story of the world of Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming, and his family, The Endless. The Sandman series has
received glowing praise from a huge cross-section of the media, from the most highbrow literary editors to the most painfully hip style mags, and has won armfuls of awards, including the 1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, leaving the organisers dumbstruck that a "comic" could have recognisable literary merit (they later instituted rules to prevent it happening again!)
Now, after a three year break, Neil Gaiman takes up the Sandman mantle once more for an all-new story told this time in an illustrated text format, similar to the acclaimed Stardust. Set in ancient Japan, it is a haunting
fable of ill-fated love and dream-eating monsters painted by legendary
Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano. All-new fiction from Gaiman that every Sandman fan has been waiting for - quite simply unmissable!
Gaiman on Amano:
Amano would send me books he had created, while I was writing the story, and I would find my own discovery of some new facet to his talent would spur me to write something to elicit that side of his art in my book, secure in the knowledge that his images for whatever I was writing would be stranger and more beautiful than what I was imagining."
"Amano on Gaiman:
"Every word Neil Gaiman chooses carries hundreds and thousands of stories that are so fascinating. It would be impossible to paint them all, even if I spent my entire lifetime. So what I do is paint as many as I can."
Yoshotaka Amano
Moving fluidly from medium to medium and style to style, Yoshitaka Amano has established himself as one of Japan's premier -- and most popular -- artists.
As a member of the venerable animation company Tatsunoko Studios,
Amano created memorable characters such as G-Force and Hutch the HoneyBee. Throughout his career, he has also published over 17 illustrated fantasy books, including the cult classic Vampire Hunter D.
His innovative character designs and illustrations cross over into video games as well, with his work appearing in the wildly popular interactive role playing game series Final Fantasy. In 1997 he collaborated with the L.A. Philharmonic to create 1,001 Nights, an animated film/music project. His other artistic outlets include printmaking, scenic design, and stained glass. The Sandman: The Dream Hunters is Amano's American comics debut.
In October 1999, Amano mounted his second major American exhibition, a multimedia event entitled Hero. Held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York City, the Hero Exhibition was the first of a series of projects about a reincarnated prince on an epic quest ten
thousand years in the future. The exhibition also featured original artwork from The Dream Hunters.
The images shown are copyright (c) 1999 DC Comics
"The Best fantasy writing of the decade." - The Times
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The Dreaming: Through the Gates of Horn and Ivory
Step through the gates of Horn and Ivory and enter the Kingdom of the Sandman
Once more, the doors of the Sandman's realm, The Dreaming, are thrown wide, and we are invited to sample the many and varied delights and terrors of its worlds within worlds, in the
second of the acclaimed graphic novel series.
Beyond the waking mind, where the lines between reality and fantasy blur, lies an infinite world of possibilities. The weird, the wonderful and the wicked all co-exist in a mystical landscape where the only limitation... is the imagination.
The industry's top writers and artists are let loose as never before, exploring and expanding on themes, characters and situations from The Sandman series of graphic novels. Both darkly macabre and soaringly uplifting, this is adult fantasy fiction at its most sublime.
Join a whitecollar worker who yearns for blue-collar freedom as he takes a special tour of the Dreaming with caretaker Mervyn Pumpkinhead;
Spend New Year's Day with two expatriate faeries - Nuala, once a gift to Dream from Queen Titania, and Ciuracan, disgraced ambassador to the Royal Court;
Travel with two denizens of The Dreaming into the waking world: The Corinthian, a deadly nightmare made flesh, sent to correct the sins of his past; and Matthew the Raven who takes human form to face an old adversary;
And learn of the exploits of one of Dream's former ravens, Aristeas of Marmora.
Welcome to The Dreaming - the vast, unmapped realm of dreams, where your wildest fantasy may walk side by side with your greatest nightmares, where truth and illusion walk hand in hand -- or sometimes claw in glove.
Suggested for Mature Readers
About The Author
During the course of a fifteen-year writing career, Neil Gaiman has been one of the top writers in modern comics and a best-selling novelist. As creator/writer of the DC Comics fantasy series The Sandman, he won every major award in the field and, in addition won the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story (making The Sandman #19 the first comic ever to win a literary award). His short story collection Angels and Visitations won the 1994 international Horror Critics' Guild Award as Best Collection. Equally acclaimed have been his novels Good Omens co-written with Terry Pratchett), Stardust and Neverwhere, an adaptation of Gaiman's hit BBC television series. Recently Gaiman released another collection of short stories, Smoke & Mirrors, and wrote the English language screenplay for the record-breaking Japanese film Princess Mononoke.
Of his shorter comics works, he is proudest of Mr Punch. He is writing a new novel at present. It's called American Gods.
Born in 1960 in Portchester, England, Neil Gaiman has exactly three children, approximately seven cats, and a house that wants to be Gormenghast when it grows up. He tends to need a haircut. Currently he needs a shave as well.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Murder Mysteries
(Titan Books,
2002)
The Quotable Sandman
(Titan Books,
2001)
Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
(Titan Books Pbk,
2000)
The Sandman: the Dream Hunters
(Titan Books,
1999)
Pbk Dec 99
The Dreaming: Through the Gates of Horn and Ivory
(Titan Books Pbk,
1999)
Stardust
(Titan Books,
1998)
Pbk Dec 99
Death: The Time of Your Life
(Titan Books,
1997)
Violent Cases
Titan Books Pbk 1997
Murder Mysteries
by Neil Gaiman
