A couple of queries from people about
the cover of the Harper Collins paperback of Sandman: Book of Dreams, along the lines of "Haven't we seen this somewhere before?" And yes, you have. It's the original cover (1989-1993ish) to
Sandman:The Doll's House graphic novel. Then the book was redesigned and it got a new cover. Then the series was reissued as The Sandman Library in a uniform series with numbers on them, and it got
yet another new cover. So this is Dave McKean's 1989
Doll's House Cover.
It was chosen because a lot of the people picking up
Book of Dreams are going to be doing it without knowing much about Sandman -- and we wanted a more literal cover illustration that would allow them a Morpheus for the mind's eye.
(
Sandman: Book of Dreams was a book I edited a while ago, with some astonishingly fine Sandman short stories in it by authors such as John M. Ford, Susanna Clarke, Colin Greenland, Delia Sherman.)
