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Violence
Some
Violence in several of the embedded stories; deaths and dark imagery in the Sandman tradition
Language
Some
Mature language in a literary comics register
Sexual Content
Some
Adult sexual content in some of the tales; queer themes
Substance Use
Barely any
Period drinking in historical settings
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Death and the shape of the dreaming, the stories we tell to survive a storm, the city of the dead as a place of peace
What this book is about
A group of travelers — from various times and worlds — find themselves stranded at Worlds' End Inn during a reality storm. They pass the time telling each other stories: tales of necropoli, cities, ships, dreamers, and the king of dreams himself. One of the most self-contained Sandman volumes, it works as an anthology of short stories while deepening the mythology and building toward the series' devastating conclusion. Gaiman at his most playful and most mythic.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
adult themes throughout
some sexual content in stories-within-stories
best read in context of the full Sandman series
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