A GAUNT, melancholy character clad in black, Morpheus, Prince of Sleep, strides through the realm of dreams with eyes like deep-set stars. Sometimes they are twinkling con-stellations, at others smouldering red dwarves or bottomless black holes.
“I dreamt I was the Sandman once,” says Neil Gaiman, Britain’s best-selling adult comic book author and creator of Morpheus. [...]