![]() ![]() ![]() One of these offers interests Dream greatly: a chance to rescue his lover Queen Nada from the consequences of his youthful anger. The delightful center of the tale is a grand banquet in the house of Dream, where these beings offer their bids and bribes for the prize of an empty Hell. Dream doesn’t really want the property-too vast, too hard to keep up-but a lot of other beings do, including demons, angels, fairies, and (yes, of course) gods): Odin, Thor, Loki, Anubis, Bes, Bast, the Shinto storm god Susano-o-no-Mikoto, and the personifications of Order (a cardboard box carried by a genie) and Chaos (a little girl dressed like a clown). Lucifer abdicates the throne of Hell, sending the damned back to earth, and turns the keys over to Dream. ![]() Neil Gaiman is at his best when his imagination is peopled with gods and demons-magnificent, outsize personalities, ranging from the eerily transcendent to the surprisingly human-and the tale he chooses to tell in “Season of Mists” gives him ample room to create a godly and superior fantasy. ![]()
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