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second of four parts; continuation of Matthew Boroson's social media post: But you wouldn't know this, because Gaiman has never given her any credit. Despite the fact that the main character--a Byronic, pale, otherworldly, deity-like character--is the prince of night and darkness. Despite the fact that every time people see art depicting Tanith Lee's main character Azhram, they think it's Morpheus from The Sandman. How bad is this? When people see depctions of her character, they say *she* must hae ripped *him* off. Despite the fact that the dream lord's younger sibling is Death. Despite the fact that other members of his family include Delusion, Delirium... They are not gods but beings older than gods, and when the gods die, Dream, Death, Delusion and Delirium will remain. This family of immortal, eternal, unchanging beings, who each embody an eternal abstraction starting with the letter D. Someone else on the internet, noticing the similarities, flipped open the third book in Tanith Lee's series to a random page, and lo and behold, there's a description of a character who was clearly the inspiration for Gaimna's Mazikeen. The prose, the characters, the narrative strategies, the mythology, the story structure, all of it: Gaiman found it all in Tanith Lee's writing and never gave her any credit.