Little Dream and Little Death

When Daniel falls asleep and enters The Dreaming, he visits The House Of Secrets, where Eve, Cain and Able are telling stories.

Abel tells the story of how he and his brother came to The Dreaming and in his story both he, Cain and The Endless were all children. In Abel’s story, after Cain and he stopped fighting (alluding to the fact that he was killed by Cain), Little Death came to him and was about to take him to her “garden,” but was stopped by Little Dream who wanted Abel to come to his “garden” and tell “secret stories” from his very own house…the House of Secrets.

“The Parliament of Rooks,” illustrated by Jill Thompson, introduced two of the Little Endless, which led to eventually write and illustrate The Little Endless Storybook and the Delirium's Party storybook. If you have not read those books, they are fun and well worth reading.

This story was originally published in Sandman # 40 and was later collected in Fables And Reflections.

Here are Little Death and Little Dream.