. . "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, Coli" . .