“One glance at the giddy crowd during a (Neil) Gaiman reading held last month at the Wall Street Borders and it’s obvious just how popular he is. While he read from The Wolves in the Walls, his latest book for children, it’s safe to say that most in attendance were drawn by their love of Gaiman’s brooding, lanky personification of dreams, the Sandman. After a seven-year break from writing the fantastical-historical-mythical stories that made him famous, Gaiman has returned to his best-loved characters with The Sandman: Endless Nights, a dizzyingly lush grouping of seven tales, each focused on a different sibling in the family known as the Endless. The intervening years have been busy ones for the prolific Gaiman—three children’s books, three novels, two collections, and a smattering of TV and movie projects—but it’s still The Sandman that inspires the most fervent dedication.” The Village Voice