Comic Title: Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2013
On Sale Date: August 28, 2013 Direct Market Date August 28, 2013
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Direct Market Date August 21, 2013
Source: Previews, #295

Cover Price: $150.00
Page Count: 1040

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Doll's House"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Sandman (Morpheus)

Writer: Neil Gaiman
Penciller: Mike Dringenberg
Inker: Malcolm Jones III
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Robbie Busch

Reprinted From:
Sandman #10 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Dream (last appearance in Sandman #8; next appearance in Sandman #11)

Supporting Character(s)

• Despair (one of the Endless; first appearance; next appearance in Sandman #21)
• Rose Walker (last name revealed; first actual appearance; last appearance in Sandman #6; next appearance in Sandman #11)
• Lucien (last appearance in Sandman #2; next appearance in Sandman #11)
• Abel (last appearance in Sandman #7; no further appearances)
• The Fates (last appearance in Sandman #2; next appearance in Wonder Woman #45)

Villain(s)

• Desire (one of the Endless; first appearance; next appearance in Sandman #16)
• Corinthian (a rogue nightmare; first appearance; next appearance in Sandman #11)

Other Character(s)

• Miranda Walker (Rose's mother; daughter of Unity Kinkaid; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Goldie (last appearance in Sandman #7; no further appearances)
• Unity Kinkaid (last appearance in Sandman #1; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Jack Holdaway (a lawyer; no further appearances)
• Davy (a victim of the Corinthian; no further appearances)
• A bellhop (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Fiddler's Green (mentioned by Lucien)
• Brute and Glob (mentioned by Lucien)

Comments:
The Doll's House Part 1

This story introduces two new members of the Endless. Desire and Despair. The sigils of the as yet unrevealed Endless, Destiny and Delirium are shown. Destruction is referred to as the Prodigal, rather than by name. His sigil is missing from Desire's gallery.

Desire reveals that it was their machinations that caused the tragic love affair between Dream and Nada.

Synopsis:
Desire contacts their sister Despair to tell her of a new plot against their brother Dream involving a dream vortex.

Meanwhile, Miranda Walker and her daughter Rose arrive in England where they've been invited for a vacation. The women are escorted to the manor of their benefactor Unity Kinkaid, one of the victims of the sleepy sickness. During the trip, Rose has several strange dreams including one in which she observes Lucien giving a census report to Morpheus in his castle.

When Unity meets Miranda and Rose she reveals that she is Miranda's birth mother. While a victim of the sleepy sickness, she was raped and the child was put up for adoption. While Miranda and Unity talk, Rose has a meeting with the three Fates which confuses her, but foretells the future.

Elsewhere, following the census, four major dreams are reported missing: Fiddler's Green, Brute and Glob, and the Corinthian. The last of which is shown to be operating in Amarillo, Texas where he has a young man bound and gagged.