Subsequently, Gaiman has written three more Sandman stories. The first is a short one titled, “The last Sandman story.” In it we hear Gaiman talk of telling stories and how the stories haunt the teller and how he and Dave McKean and others did meet some of the characters from the stories. And he relates that deep down he believes in the power of stories and in the idea of the Sandman.
We then get an illustrated prose piece that Gaiman wrote to celebrate the Sandman’s tenth anniversary. It is essentially a retelling of an old Japanese myth, “The Fox, the Monk and the Mikado of All Night’s Dreaming.” In it, a fox and a monk slowly fall in love and a scared wizard wants to live in peace and learns of the serene monk. The wizard wants to steal his peace (thus killing him, but only without harming him so it is a death in dreams). The fox learns of this and visits Dream and pleads with him to help the monk. With his advice she decides to hunt down the monk’s dreams and catch them unto herself, which she does (and dies in her dream). The monk then also visits Dream and wishes to free the fox. The monk frees her and dies himself (although they had time together in dreams). The fox then goes and seeks revenge on the wizard, destroying him and all that is his. Dream and a raven talk of these events and the lessons to be learned. In dreams there may be a fox and a monk together or there may not. Dreams are strange things and none but the Mikado of All Night’s Dreaming can say whether they are true or not, nor what they can tell us of times to come.
With that, we almost come to the end of the story grand of the Sandman. Gaiman released another collection of seven stories entitled, Sandman: Endless Nights. Each story focuses around a member of the Endless. Death visits a recursive party that never ends. Despair is shown in fifteen portraits. Desire lives in the heart of a woman. Destruction watches how dangerous humans have become. Delirium is rescued from herself. Dream falls in love once upon a time. And Destiny reads his book. Each story gives us a small glimpse into the realms of the Endless and how they intersect with our world.
The preceding discussion is a summary of the themes and occurrences throughout the story grand of the Sandman narrative. Now we will explore and explain how the medium enhanced the story and the story enhanced the medium.