Lucien (Sandman) - Definition and Overview

Lucien is the Librarian in the Library of Dream of the Endless in the comic book The Sandman. He is the effective keeper of The Dreaming in Dream's absence, and his primary function is to protect the Library, wherein are contained all the books that are dreamt of, but never written. We learn of several of the titles of these books, a more complete list of which can be found in the Invisible Library (http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/libtitle6.htm), which lists fictional books.

Like Cain and Abel, Lucien was originally the host of a 1970s "weird tales" comic, specifically Tales from Ghost Castle. In that series, he was portrayed as the guardian of an abandoned castle, watching over its forgotten library. In his first appearance in Sandman (issue 2) this was retroactively revealed to be Morpheus' castle, deteriorating in the Lord of the Dreaming's absence.

Later issues of Sandman revealed that Lucien was originally Dream's first raven. An allusion to "Mr Raven", the ghostly librarian in George MacDonald's novel Lilith may be intended.

External links

• A Picture of Lucien (http://www.dreaming.org/~lucien/)