Dream and Desire are still close to each other, but you will find out the reason of their distancing. The Desire meets that woman and he/she shows to the woman her inner nature. That helped her to define her path in life.

This story is about several mentally unbalanced people who are brought together on a quest to save Delirium from herself. It's possible at the end of this story that Delirium is somewhat healed in some fundamental way; at least two of the people involved in her rescue are also at least partly healed. Daniel/Dream, Dream's raven Matthew, and Barnabas (Delirium's dog protector on indefinite loan from Destruction), also appear as part of the rescue mission. One of the adventurers is based loosely on Henry Darger.In the introduction, Gaiman says that the thought of Manara illustrating a tale of Desire was one of the things that propelled him into making Endless Nights a reality, and I can see why; everything from his line-work to the coloring is beautiful and sensual. This story appears to be set in pre-Roman Britain, and follows the life of a woman who bargains with Desire to win the hand of her handsome neighbor. Which brings me to this graphic novel. Gaiman got his name writing an amazing series called Sandman that was already unraveling a bit by the end. He'd simply said all he wanted to do, and to make sure he was done, he destroyed his work ala the way Shakespeare destroyed his in the Tempest. He even gives us one last hurrah by linking the two together. It's a great idea. It was a great way to go out. The reason why I took off half a star is because some of the stories were a bit confusing to read through. Probably the stories I had the most problems reading through were Delirium’s story “Going Inside” and Despair’s story “Fifteen Portraits of Despair” as the narratives were too complicated to understand since it seems like the stories were being told from a point of view of a crazed mind (although Delirium’s story makes so much sense based on her character). Also, for anyone who does not like violence and language, this volume does have some gory violence and strong language, although the violence is not as strong in this volume as it was in previous volumes. Dream’s tale, The Heart of a Star, is a story from the dawn of Everything, with interesting correspondence with the story in Sandman Overture. The art, by Miguelanxo Prado wasn’t bad, but wasn’t my taste either.

In this story, Death is waiting for a door to be open again and getting throught it, a very special door. I have a love hate with this one. Love the Death / Dream / Desire stories. Hated the Destiny / Delerium stories. The Destruction story was... sort of just there. The Delirium story was really quite charming. It's actually the funnest in the bunch because it's her calling a bunch of crazies to come and rescue her. It is unknown how Night came to exist. She is the mother to the Endless, but has little interest in her children.After reading almost all of Neil Gaiman’s fantastic run on the “Sandman” series (to the point where I called the year 2012 “The Year of the Sandman” since I had spent the year reading the Sandman comics), I wanted to read Neil Gaiman’s latest story on the “Sandman” series, “The Sandman: Endless Nights,” even though The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake was actually considered the final story arc in the “Sandman” series. “The Sandman: Endless Nights,” which is also a Bram Stoker Award winner and a Locus Award winner, is a fantastic series for any newcomer who wants to learn more about the Endless characters! This story depicts a woman who bargains with Desire to win the hand of her love and then loses him to war. The title is probably taken from a line in Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice. Gaiman himself has said that the story is based on a historical anecdote told by George MacDonald Fraser. He tells the story of a woman named Kara in an apparently pre-Roman Britain, wherein she becomes enamored of a handsome neighbour. Upon consultation later, a witch refers her to Desire. The young man goes to the coast while his father goes to negotiate an exchange of hostages; and upon the latter's failure, Kara tells the former that his father is dead. On the way she meets Desire, who promises to inspire an unbreakable longing in the object of her love, the young man - Danyal. As a result, Danyal courts her for three months, until she consents to marry him. Unfortunately, he is killed soon afterward, and his killers come asking Kara for shelter, which she grants in obedience to cultural tradition. Upon seeing her husband's severed head, she flatters each of the killers into performing contests of strength, skill, and conversation, et al., until her own warriors return the following morning to kill them all. Thereafter, she is said to have remarried; she dies of old age at the conclusion of her story.