The Books of Magic » (Revised)

Novelist Neil Gaiman has sent a British businessman tumbling into a fantastic underworld and had a devil and angel comically conspiring to thwart the Apocalypse. He found his biggest success, though, in Death, Dreams and Destruction -- and the four other similarly named siblings who controlled the reins of the human race's emotional impulses in his graphic-novel series The Sandman, a wholesale rejuvenation of graphic fiction that had everyone from Tori Amos to Norman Mailer spinning with, yes, Delirium.

/Neil Gaiman /John Bolton, Charles Vess, Scott Hampton /and Paul Johnson, illustrators In this supernatural tour de force by award winning writer Neil Gaiman, DC's occult characters guide young Tim Hunter