Comic Title: Essential Vertigo:The Sandman #14
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 1700 Broadway, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: September 1997
On Sale Date: July 9, 1997 Direct Market Date July 9, 1997
Source: Previews, Vol. 7 #5 (#101)

Direct Market Date July 9, 1997
Source: ComicList, Diamond : New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 9, 1997

Shipping Date July 9, 1997
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #1234

Direct Market Date July 9, 1997
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of July 17, 1997

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $2.95
Page Count: 48
Editor: Bob Kahan

Notes:
Cover dated Sep 1997; Indicia dated August 1997

Title: "Collectors"
Pages: 38

Feature(s):
Sandman (Morpheus)

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

Reprinted From:
Sandman #14 (1990)

Feature Character(s)

• Dream (last appearance in Sandman #13; next appearance in Sandman #15)

Supporting Character(s)

• Fiddler's Green (as Gilbert; last appearance in Sandman #12; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Rose Walker (last appearance in Sandman #12; next appearance in Sandman #15)

Villain(s)

• Corinthian (unmade in this story; last appearance in Sandman #12; no further appearances)
• Nimrod (a convention organizer; last appearance in Sandman #11; no further appearances)
• Funland (Nathan Diskin; a serial killer; no further appearances)
• Moon River, Candyman, Dog Soup, the Doctor, the Choirboy, Hello Little Girl, Carrion, Dark Angel, the Grass Widow, El Dorado, and Psycho-Killer (serial killers; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jed (last appearance in Sandman #12; next appearance in Sandman #15)
• Philip Sitz (publisher of Chaste magazine; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A hotel manager (no further appearances)

Comments:
The Doll's House Part 5

This story takes place a few days after Sandman #12.

Philip Sitz impersonates the Bogeyman, a killer who died in Swamp Thing #44.

The guest of honor, the Family Man, does not show up for the convention. He was appearing in Hellblazer #24 to Hellblazer #30 at the time.

Synopsis:
A group of serial killers converge on a motel in a small Georgia town where they are holding a convention. Inside the hotel are Rose Walker and her companion Gilbert. They were on their way to find Rose's brother Jed, but when they called ahead the police answered the phone. Jed was missing, and the police asked Rose to remain at the motel where she could be reached if necessary.

Meanwhile at the convention, the guest of honor has not arrived. The convention organizer, Nimrod, asks the Corinthian to take his place. Elsewhere, Philip Sitz, a magazine publisher has gotten in to the convention by impersonating the killer known as the Bogeyman. He is found out. The Corinthian, Nimrod, and the Doctor kidnap Sitz. They take him outside of town and take turns torturing and killing him.

Back at the convention, Gilbert is scared because he saw the Corinthian. He gives Rose a piece of paper and instructions, then flees. When Rose is attacked by the serial killer known as Funland, she follows Gilbert's instruction and reads the name on the paper aloud, Morpheus. Dream appears and saves Rose. He then breaks up the convention after unmaking his rogue nightmare, the Corinthian.

Rose has left the motel after her encounter with Dream. As she regains her composure in the parking lot outside, Gilbert appears. He is carrying Jed's body which the Corinthian had stashed in the trunk of his car.