In the next collection of stories are four individual ones sprinkled in between two longer storylines. They are collected together under the title, Dream Country, and each story deals with myths. In the first, "Calliope," we see that an old man, Erasmus Fry, has captured a muse, and is ready to pass it on to another writer, Richard Madoc. So, they make an exchange and Madoc gets Calliope, who reminds Fry that he promised to let her go and he replies, "Writers are liars, my dear. Surely you realized that by now?" So, Madoc imprisons Calliope, rapes her and becomes a juggernaut of creative success, writing, books, plays and screenplays - poetry and prose. Calliope ends up calling to Dream for help (they were once married). He comes to her and then visits Madoc in his dreams and asks for her to be freed. Madoc refuses on the pretense that he needs her for ideas. In turn, Dream floods Madoc with so many ideas that he can't keep up with them. Dream frees Calliope and she then asks him to release Madoc, which he does, leaving Madoc with "no idea at all.'

In the second story, "Dream of a Thousand Cats," we see a kitten gathering with other cats to go hear an almost infamous Siamese Cat who is traveling the world telling cats what they must do to change the world they live in. This old cat tells the story of losing her kittens to humans, and in her dreams she prays for a way to seek freedom from humans. She goes on an arduous search through Dreamland to find Dream (in the form of a cat) and he tells her a story of how cats were the size of people and people were just mice, and then one day a man preaches to his fellow humans that "dreams shape the world," and that if a thousand humans can dream of a different world where they rule over cats, then it will happen. One night it does, and Dream tells the cat that the humans' dream made it so that humans had always been bigger than cats. But to make the change, she must go and convince a thousand cats to dream their dream on the same night. So, the great cat leaves and the kitten leaves with one other cat who says the story may or may not be true, but to get a thousand cats to do anything at the same time is impossible. The kitten, undeterred, naps that day, and her owners comment on how she must be chasing little mice in her dreams.

In the third installation, we get, "Facade," a story about a superhero woman, Rainie, who went before the Orb of Ra and is turned into an immortal metamorph. She is now a being not even remotely human, who can change her body into any element. Rainie, is depressed and alone in this story. She feels that she can no longer go out in public because she looks so hideous. She can grow silicate faces that look normal, but they fall off soon thereafter (she does try once to meet a friend, but her face falls off at a restaurant, and she flees). She has the faces strewn all over the apartment and is using one as an ashtray. Death happens to walk by, and pops in to chat with Rainie, who hopes this means she can die. Death says yes, but notest that she isn't Rainie's death, merely someone else's who happened to be nearby. She then tells Rainie to talk to Ra (by talking to the sun). Rainie does and asks to no longer be a metamorph. Ra asks her to look at him. She does and dies petrified by the sun.

The last story in the collection is "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and it shows Shakespeare to fulfill half of his bargain with Dream, by presenting the play to the Fairie out in Wendel's Mound in the English countryside. This story is the only monthly comic to win a literary award, the 1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. It is a lovely piece that shows the workings of theatre at the time, and interweaves the play with conversation from the Fairie (many of whom are in the play). As we go through, we see the Queen of the Fairie seduce Hament, Shakespeare's son, foreshadowing his death (or kidnapping to Fairie). And we see the real Puck abduct the actor playing him and then replace him on the stage, playing the final lines as himself and escaping into our world, not returning with the other Fairie to their land. The story ends with the actors awakening in the field the next day. Their gold payment has turned to flowers. Shakespeare and company prepare to return to London, and we learn that Hamnet is thought to have died and that Robin Goodfellow's whereabouts are unknown.