Morpheus speaks with the voice of James McAvoy in The Sandman audio drama

Neil Gaiman narrates The Sandman audio drama, coming July 15 on Audible.

We're just a week or so away from the official release of The Sandman, a multi-part audio drama adaptation of Nail Gaiman's seminal graphic novel series, via Audible Original. And we also have a new teaser for the drama, directed by Dirk Maggs. Maggs also directed the audio drama adaptations of Good Omens and Gaiman's novel Anansi Boys.

For the uninitiated, the titular "sandman" is Dream, also called Morpheus, among other names. He is one of seven entities known as the Endless, and he is seeking to set right his past mistakes. The other Endless are Destiny, Destruction, Despair, Desire, Delirium, and Death, portrayed as a perky punk/goth young woman-they became almost as popular as Dream himself and were featured in several spinoff comics.

The audio drama will cover the first three of the series' ten volumes: Preludes and Nocturnes, The Doll's House, and Dream Country. The series opens when Morpheus, the King of Dreams, escapes from a 70-year imprisonment by an occultist (who actually wanted to capture Dream's sibling Death but trapped the Sandman by mistake). From there, per the official synopsis:

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