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Author: Neil Gaiman  Yoshitaka Amano  
ISBN: 1840231289   /   Hardcover
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd   /   1999-11-26
List Price: £24.99
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Editorial Reviews:
When, in 1996, Neil Gaiman laid his acclaimed Sandman series to rest after seven extraordinarily successful years, the fans lamented. And with good reason: its influence on the comic book industry was immeasurable; the harbinger of a renewed literary acceptance for the medium. Gaiman had expertly fashioned a vivid Gothic fantasy world that mixed the majesty of folklore with the horrors of modern life. The rich tapestry of stories that unfolded focused on a lonely Byronic figure called Morpheus, ruler of the amorphous world of our dreams. With The Dream Hunters, fans can rejoice as Gaiman returns to his signature work with a haunting fable of love, devotion and betrayal set in Ancient Japan. A lone monk spends his days tending to his temple garden, when he meets a Fox, a beautiful woman in human form, who becomes trapped within the monk's dreams. To save her, the monk must travel to the Realm of the Sandman and face a terrible choice between love and death. Meanwhile, a sinister magician makes nefarious plans against the pair to achieve his heart's desire. On this occasion, Gaiman's evocative prose is paired with the ethereally beautiful paintings of Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano. And what a pairing it is; this is a prime example of creative symbiosis if ever there was one. True, the story is slight, but Gaiman weaves his own magic of letting simplicity harbour a wondrous complexity that lurks in the background, wonderfully rendered by Amano. Fans will be delighted by this comeback, while others can be captivated by Gaiman's assurance that popular culture cannot displace old-fashioned tales of magic and wonder. --Danny Graydon

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A beautiful mixture of story and dreams     
Dream Hunters is based on japonese folklore and tells a tale of a love that could only exist in a land of dreams. Yoshitaka Amanos paintings are dreams on the page.Gaimans story telling is brilliant as ever. If you love strange tales and great comic art work such as Dave Mckeans try this. You won't be disappointed.
Beautiful     
In Dream Hunters Neil Gaiman retells a Japanese Legend about a monk and a fox in his own manner, tying it in with his Sandman series of graphic novels.

Dream Hunters fits in with the Sandman series in that it features the King Of Dreams, but really it's a book that's more free-standing than any ofthe graphic novels. It isn't in comic strip format, and although some of the Sandman characters appear the book is about two separate characters.

The book is told in prose, with every page of prose countered by an illustration by Yoshitaka Amano - and it's the illustrations that make this book so wonderful. Gaiman's story telling is good - in thisparticular book he takes on a formal storytelling voice, which works pretty well - but the illustration are beautiful. Even the cover is something I'd happily hang on my wall, but there's a picture that good on nearly every page - and some are even better.

Fans of the Sandman will probably enjoy seeing a different side of the King of Dreams, and a different writing style from Gaiman, but people completely unfamiliar with the series aren't left out at all. The book is a complete story in itself, and a very good one.
Brilliant, subtle and surreal - Gaiman has done it again!     
The Dream Hunters is a Japanese folktale retold in Gaiman's usual dark style. Sandman fans will love this book which subtly references the Sandman themes while being more like his previous adult fairytale Stardust. However the book is stand alone and you don't need to have read any of Gaiman's previous work to fully appreciate it. The story is gentle & surreal with tones of violence as is the superb artwork by Amano. The synergy created by Gaiman's prose & Amano's art is mesmerising and the only real disappointment in the book is that, eventually, you will come to the end of it. I would recommend it to anyone.
Simple and wonderful     
This was a joy to read and a feast for the eyes. Gaiman as ever weaves a story that delights and suprises, and Amano has you falling into the world he creates with his sublime drawings.

Buy this book, read it, pass it on.

Its greaty     
I bought this a few weeks ago and it is gorgeous. The story is Gaiman's storytelling at its best and the illustrations are superb. Its a beautiful beautiful thing.
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