#5 in Comics
The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes
- 240
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Editor’s note Preludes & Nocturnes collects the first eight issues of The Sandman, published from 1989 and gathered in 1991: an English occultist trying to trap Death in 1916 catches her brother Dream instead and keeps him in a glass cell for seventy years, and when he gets out he has to recover his three tools, a pouch of sand, a helm and a ruby, from a junkie, from Hell and from a madman. It is the volume Neil Gaiman has said is the least like the rest, still half a horror comic, and the one he suggests new readers can skip to the second; against that, issue six, twenty-four hours in a diner, is one of the most frightening comics ever drawn, and issue eight introduces Death, the sister who looks like a goth girl and is kinder than anyone. Ten volumes follow.
About the book
Preludes & Nocturnes is the first trade paperback collection of the comic book series The Sandman, published by the DC Comics imprint Vertigo. It collects issues #1–8. It is written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg and Malcolm Jones III, colored by Robbie Busch and lettered by Todd Klein.
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The sources average 8.6 across 889 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 86% of the weight and the score stays at 8.6 — the Comics average of 8.5 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 79 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 8.6 | 810 | 91% |
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