Morpheus (The Matrix) Morpheus in Kia Motors' K900 commercial for Super Bowl XLVIII. He sings Pavarotti's rendition of Nessun Dorma, Italian for "None Shall Sleep". Morpheus (The Matrix) Morpheus is a fictional character in "The Matrix" franchise. He is portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the films, and in the video game "" where he was the only actor to reprise his character's voice. Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the creators of "The Matrix" franchise, instructed Fishburne to base his performance on Morpheus, a character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series "The Sandman". At the studio's request, Gaiman later wrote "Goliath", a promotional short story
Scary Stories for Sleep-overs Scary Stories for Sleep-overs Scary Stories for Sleep-overs is a series of scary children's books written by R.C. Welch, Q.L. Pearce, and various other authors and illustrated by Ricardo Delgado, Bartt Warbuton, Dwight Been and others throughout the series. The series was enormously popular, publishing millions of copies and ten initial volumes between the years of 1991 and 1999. The series even produced several one-shot novels and a spin-off series, "Scary Mysteries for Sleep-overs". Reaching its peak popularity in the mid-1990s, this was Price Stern Sloan's answer to "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". A handful of stories from