The Sandman - Season 12

The Sandman - Season 12

First aired: 9/1/2003 7 episodes

Alternately haunting, bittersweet, erotic and nightmarish, the seven stories in this book -- one for each of the Endless siblings, each illustrated by a different artist -- reveal strange secrets and surprising truths about the Endless.

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Episodes

1. Chapter 1: Death - Death and Venice

Aired: 9/1/2003

This story deals with the idea of quality versus quantity of life. It is split between two views: the lives of a group on an island off the coast of Venice protected by magic from Death versus the memories and thoughts of a young American who has never forgotten his childhood encounter with her.

2. Chapter 2: Desire - What I've Tasted of Desire

This story depicts a woman who bargains with Desire to win the hand of her love and then loses him to war.

3. Chapter 3: Dream - The Heart of a Star

Near the beginning of the habitability of the universe, Dream and his new paramour Killala of the Glow travel to a meeting of astronomical phenomena, wherein Killalla is astonished to identify the delegates as the very stars, galaxies, and dimensions which comprise the cosmos.

4. Chapter 4: Despair - Fifteen Portraits of Despair

This collection of fifteen very short vignettes illustrates different aspects of Despair, either the character herself, the emotion in abstract, or people in a state of despair.

5. Chapter 5: Delirium - Going Inside

This story is about several mentally unbalanced people who are brought together on a quest to save Delirium from herself.

6. Chapter 6: Destruction - On the Peninsula

This is a story about some archaeologists who uncover and explore a peninsula from many years in the future.

7. Chapter 7: Destiny - Endless Nights

This short story is simply a wander through Destiny's garden of forking paths.