The Sandman: Endless Nights

The Sandman: Endless Nights
Cover of the story. Art by Dave McKean
Publication information
Publisher	Vertigo
Publication date	2003
Main character(s)	The Endless
Creative team
Writer(s)	Neil Gaiman
Artist(s)	Dave McKean P. Craig Russell Milo Manara Miguelanxo Prado Barron Storey Bill Sienkiewicz Glenn Fabry Frank Quitely
Letterer(s)	Todd Klein
Creator(s)	Neil Gaiman

The Sandman: Endless Nights is a graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman as a follow-up to his Sandman series. The book is divided into seven chapters, each devoted to one of the Endless, a family of brothers and sisters who are physical manifestations of the metaphysical concepts Dream, Death, Desire, Destruction, Delirium, Despair and Destiny. It was published by DC Comics in 2003. It won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative. It is also the first comic book to ever be on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Each tale is stylistically different, and illustrated by a different artist. Most of the tales are independent of each other; however Destruction's tale relates to and immediately follows Delirium's. Destruction and Delirium's tales are the only ones that take place after the events of the Sandman series.

In line with all the other Sandman comics, the cover, logo and book designs were created by Dave McKean.

Endless Nights was preceded by The Wake.

Art by P. Craig Russell

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 (the conclusion suggests he is a special forces soldier) who has never forgotten his childhood encounter with her.