Nearly all of writer Neil Gaiman's previously unreprinted VERTIGO stories - including the only unavailable Morpheus story, 1995's SANDMAN MIDNIGHT THEATRE - as well as a previously unreleased 10-page Gaiman Swamp Thing tale newly illustrated by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben, are collected in NEIL GAIMAN'S MIDNIGHT DAYS, an enthralling VERTIGO trade paperback. Among the often-requested stories in MIDNIGHT DAYS is the haunting John Constantine story "Hold Me" (from HELLBLAZER #27), illustrated by Gaiman's THE SANDMAN collaborator Dave McKean (who also provides a new cover for the collection). In addition, the Golden Age Sandman's surprising encounter with an imprisoned Morpheus in SANDMAN MIDNIGHT THEATRE (co-written by Gaiman and Matt Wagner, with painted art by Teddy Kristiansen) comes back to print as part of MIDNIGHT DAYS collection, as does the Gaiman-scripted return of Brother Power, the Geek (illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner, Mike Hoffman and Kim DeMulder) and the offbeat "Shaggy God Stories," illustrated by Mike Mignola (both from SWAMP THING ANNUAL #5). Rounding out NEIL GAIMAN'S MIDNIGHT DAYS are a new introduction and commentary pieces by Gaiman and Gaiman's 1986 DC Comics "audition" piece - a story of a 16th- century Plant Elemental, newly illustrated by the classic SWAMP THING art team of Stephen Bissette and John Totleben. MR, SC, 7x10, 160pg, FC.