He is also the author of The Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Traded My Dad for Two Goldfish, both written for children. His other books include Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, American Gods, and Stardust, (winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award as one of 2000's top novels for young adults) as well as the short story collections M Is for Magic and Smoke and Mirrors. Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Medal-winning The Graveyard Book and Coraline, the basis for the hit movie. 'A Dream of a Thousand Cats' has such hope, beauty, and good old-fashioned chills that rereading it becomes a welcome pleasure. But for my money, another story in Dream Country has it beat hands down. One of the stories here, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' took home the World Fantasy Award for best short story-the first time a comic was given that honor. And secondly, it solidly cemented Neil Gaiman as a storyteller. First, it marked a distinct move away from the horror genre and into a more fantasy-rich, classical mythology-laden environment. (Actually, he's not even in the last story.) This signaled a couple of important things in the development of what is considered one of the great comics of the second half of the century. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book-the Sandman, King of Dreams-serves only as a minor character in each of these otherwise unrelated stories. The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories.

The Sandman Vol. 3 by Neil Gaiman