Distraught by the kidnapping and presumed death of her son, and believing Morpheus to be responsible, Lyta Hall calls the ancient wrath of the Furies down upon him...

The Kindly Ones belongs with the second collection, The Doll's House, and the seventh, Brief Lives, in that it finishes off a story that mostly originated in these collections. Parts from other collections are also important to its story, however, notably elements from Season of Mists and the story of Orpheus, told mostly in Fables and Reflections. The Kindly Ones is a single storyline written as a Greek tragedy, with Morpheus as its doomed hero and an aspect of the triad of witches, the Erinyes, as the Greek chorus.

Issues Collected:

Vertigo Jan 1 The Castle - Penciller & Inker Kevin Nowlan
57 The Kindly Ones - 1 Penciller & Inker Marc Hempel
58 The Kindly Ones - 2 Penciller Marc Hempel, Inker D'Israeli 
59 The Kindly Ones - 3 Penciller Marc Hempel, Inker D'Israeli 
60 The Kindly Ones - 4 Penciller Marc Hempel, Inker D'Israeli 
61 The Kindly Ones - 5 Penciller Marc Hempel, Inker Marc Hempel / D'Israeli
62 The Kindly Ones - 6 Penciller Glyn Dillon / Charles Vess / Dean Ornston, Inker Glyn Dillon / Charles Vess / D'Israeli 
63 The Kindly Ones - 7 Penciller & Inker Marc Hempel 
64 The Kindly Ones - 8 Penciller & Inker Teddy Kristiansen 
65 The Kindly Ones - 9 Penciller Marc Hempel, Inker Richard Case
66 The Kindly Ones - 10 Penciller Marc Hempel, Inker Richard Case 
67 The Kindly Ones - 11 Penciller Marc Hempel, Inker Richard Case
68 The Kindly Ones - 12 Penciller Marc Hempel / Richard Case, Inker Richard Case 
69 The Kindly Ones - 13 Penciller & Inker Marc Hempel