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Edition 17 (1991)

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A short comic story collected in issue 19 of The Sandman, it revisits Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream from the perspective of Oberon, Titania, and the faerie court. By reframing the backstage world of a classic play through fantasy, it quietly unsettles the boundary between art and reality.

The faerie court looks back at the play onstage, turning theater into a mirror of enchantment.

26 pages
Shakespearefaeriestheaterdreamsmetafiction
Stephen Jones Winner

The first volume of the annual anthology launched by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell, it gathers a wide slice of that year's horror and dark fantasy. Through its selected stories, the book reflects the energy and changing shape of the genre at the time.

An annual anthology that gathers the year's strongest horror short fiction into a single snapshot of the field.

400 pages
horroranthologyshort fictiondark fantasyannual collection