The Dreaming #27

A haunting wash of sickly green sets the mood for this 1998 DC/Vertigo series, as Dave McKean's cover presents a disheveled, wide-eyed figure pinned within a stone archway — forks, of all things, bristling from his body and the surrounding space like some surreal torment. It's the kind of unsettling, dreamlike imagery that made The Dreaming such a distinctive corner of the Vertigo line. Caitlín R. Kiernan and Peter Snejbjerg kick off "Many Mansions" with this striking package, promising the blend of the eerie and the strange that fans of the series had come to cherish.