# “ Fear of Falling” was originally a story published as its own for a one-shot issue called “ Vertigo Preview” whose function, as the name indicates, was to serve as a big preview for most of the Vertigo titles. Out of these volumes, one included actually more than just the numbered issues: volume 6, “Fables and Reflections”, added two Sandman specials. You’ll get what I mean.Īfter being released as a series of numbered issues, The Sandman was collected in the ten volumes I described previously. Given there is a lot of those specials, I’ll classify them by “publishing order”. In French we have a clever word for that: the “hors-séries” (literally meaning “outside of the series”, it is still part of the world but not inside the numbered series). But you’ll still be missing the second part of the full Sandman world. Don’t get me wrong, if you just read the numbered issues you’ll get the full story without problem. He created a lot of side-stories, side volumes and “specials” whose presence are either exciting and thrilling additions to the Sandman mythos, or key elements needed to understand the plots and happenings of the main story. You see, Neil Gaiman wrote and created much more than just the numbered issues. Congrats!īut I am sorry to tell you, you don’t actually have the full Sandman story. So… You have read the full Sandman series.

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