This was the second of two collaborations between Gaiman and Seeing Ear Theatre, following Murder Mysteries, and the two adaptations have been released together on CD under the title Two Plays for Voices.

Both radio-dramas were written by Neil Gaiman and produced by Brian Smith of the Sci Fi Channel's program, the Seeing Ear Theatre.

The ninth comic launched at Vertigo's 1993 debut was the Vertigo Preview, showcasing the concurrently released titles, as well as J. M. DeMatteis ' Mercy, Ann Nocenti's Kid Eternity ( an ongoing series spun off from the earlier Morrison-penned miniseries ), Dick Foreman's Black Orchid ( an on-going series spun off from the Gaiman / McKean miniseries ) and Matt Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre.

The two characters met briefly in a one-shot special, Sandman Midnight Theatre, co-written by Gaiman and Wagner.

*" Sandman Midnight Theatre ", the one and only meeting between the Golden Age Sandman and the The Sandman of The Endless, originally published as the Sandman Midnight Theatre one-shot, co-written by Matt Wagner ( co-plot ) and Neil Gaiman ( co-plot / script ), with painted art by Teddy Kristiansen.

Neil Gaiman, who went on to become a New York Times best-selling novelist, came to prominence four years pre-Vertigo with the launch of The Sandman for DC Comics, a title that became the backbone of the initial Vertigo line-up.

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two.

Merritt penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 Off-Broadway stage musical of " Coraline ", based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.

While months later Berger offered Gaiman a comic title to work on, he was unsure his Sandman pitch would be accepted.

" Gaiman patterned the character's black attire on a print of a Japanese kimono as well as his own wardrobe.

Gaiman described the early issues as " awkward ", for he, as well as Kieth, Dringenberg, and Busch, had never worked on a regular series before.

Between Thomas and Gaiman, the character's existence was revealed to be a sham created by two nightmares who had escaped to a pocket of the Dreaming, who would later attempt this again on Sanderson Hawkins, sidekick to Wesley Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman ( who himself made several appearances in the Gaiman series ).

It was due to their meeting on the Sandman movie project that Avary and Gaiman collaborated one year later on the script for Beowulf.

Film director James Mangold pitched a series concept to cable channel HBO, whilst consulting with Gaiman himself on an unofficial basis, but this proved to be unsuccessful.

* Video interview with Neil Gaiman on the origins of Sandman at Spacecast. com

His face and appearance is based on his creator Neil Gaiman in his twenties and The Cure's frontman Robert Smith.

In fact, Gaiman explains that Sandman artist, Dave McKean, based Dream's face in the cover of Sandman # 1 on Peter Murphy.

Guest writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Dave Sim and Frank Miller were brought on for issues 8 to 11 ( respectively ) while McFarlane continued as the artist.

Joanna Scanlan plays a character called Mormo in the 2007 movie Stardust, which is based on a novel by Neil Gaiman.

These included Neil Gaiman, whom she met in 1987 on a talent-scouting trip, as well as Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison.

The artwork of Charles Vess has infrequently but notably accompanied the words of Neil Gaiman on Vertigo projects, including the 4-issue Stardust ( 1997-8 ) miniseries, later reprinted as an illustrated hardcover book.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

During an interview to be included in the audio book Neil Gaiman explained how, one day while driving he had seen a wall on the side of the road and had conceived the idea of Faerie being behind the wall, this sparked an idea in his head about an American novelist who moved to England where he would find out about this wall, this book was to be called, very simply, Wall.

During this run on the title, Grant Morrison ( issues # 25 & 26 ) and Neil Gaiman ( issue # 27 ) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's story dealing with nuclear fear, and Neil Gaiman's being a simple romantic ghost story.

Gaiman has also credited the series as being one of the main influences on his short story " A Study in Emerald ".

Mr. Gaiman has spoken in some detail about this on his website.

Gaiman had previously confirmed that this movie was in progress and that he was planning on writing the script and directing it, with Guillermo del Toro as executive producer.

Gaiman spent several days on the set of del Toro's film Hellboy II: The Golden Army to get pointers on how to direct.

* Untitled Sandman Project ( 2013 ): Neil Gaiman announced via video in the San Diego Comic Con 2012 that he and JH Williams III would collaborate to produce the story that was previously hinted in Gaiman's introduction to Season of Mists and in Brief Lives of Dream's adventure prior to Preludes and Nocturnes which had exhausted him so much that it made Burgess ' actions capable of capturing him.

Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli were to have created a Sweeney Todd adaptation for Taboo, published by Steve Bissette and Tundra, but only completed a prologue.

There have been two adaptations of the graphic novel into other media: in 1996, Gaiman adapted his own story for a BBC radio broadcast, with music by McKean ; and in 1999, a stage adaptation written by Marc Rosenbush and Robert Toombs was mounted in Chicago with Gaiman's cooperation.

In 2005, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a one hour radio adaptation of the The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, adapted by Gaiman with music by McKean and Ashley Slater.

Gaiman said in 1996, " Could I do another five issues of Sandman?

According to an interview with Gaiman in The Sandman Companion, the Corinthian takes his name from the mode of behavior ; specifically, " a Corinthian " was another term for a rake: a devil-may-care, ne ' er-do-well.

John Bolton, another frequent Gaiman collaborator has rarely worked with that author directly for Vertigo, but has utilised his characters, including in the OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies and the Books of Magic lead-in Arcana Annual.

Gaiman has also occasionally made references to writing a sequel, or at least another book concerning the village of Wall.

Since 2000, Mirrlees ' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.

It is unknown how much of Duma's background from Jewish mythology that Gaiman actually incorporated into the character ( in fact Duma's role as the vindicator was taken by another DC Character, the Spectre, who also entered in contact with Duma ).

* The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch by Gaiman, another old pantomime rewritten for modern times.

He has adapted another Gaiman Sandman work, Sandman: The Dream Hunters, and a Robert E. Howard Conan the Barbarian story, " The Jewels of Gwahlur ".

* Neil Gaiman wrote a story personifying the month in his collection Fragile Things entitled October in the Chair.

Neil Gaiman, in a promotional " penny dreadful ", identified a number of earlier texts that feed into the Todd story, some dating back to at least the late 17th century.

* Author Neil Gaiman wrote a short story called " One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock '" about a troubled boy who loves the stories about Elric, and finds escape from the everyday world in them.

The idea for the story came from a conversation between Gaiman and Henry about a possible television series.

Gaiman was initially reluctant to commit, as he feared that making the homeless appear " cool " might cause more young people to attempt to emulate the characters, but decided that the effect could be avoided by making the story more removed from reality.

Neil Gaiman also cited The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as one of the influences for his award-winning short story " A Study in Emerald ".

As the 10th anniversary arrived, Gaiman wrote several new stories about Morpheus and his siblings, one story for each, which were published in 2003 as the Endless Nights anthology.

Gaiman has announced that to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Sandman, a new volume will be produced ; it will include a story about the victory that had exhausted Morpheus prior to the beginning of the original story.

Neil Gaiman announced at Comic-Con 2007 that P. Craig Russell will adapt the story into comics form.

It was written by Gaiman and featured a different illustrator for each story.

Gaiman admits that he stole the name for the Threshold from a story Clive Barker had been planning to do in which Gaiman was going to be included as a character.

In The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storytelling session about Destruction telling a story.

* Neil Gaiman has extended this story in his comic book series 1602, where a Native American named Rojhaz meets Virginia Dare when she is about twelve, and an artifact of his travels causes her to transform into a series of white creatures whenever she is in danger.

Among the stories drawn for Heavy Metal he continued the saga of his most famous creation, Den which had begun in the short film Neverwhere ( Neil Gaiman used the same title, Neverwhere, later, but the two creations have nothing common ) and a short story in the underground publication Grim Wit # 2.

Stardust was originally conceived by Gaiman and Vess as a " story book with pictures ," created by both, to be published by DC Comics.

Gaiman and Vess originally intended the story to be released complete, as a single book, which would better reproduce the painted illustrations of Vess and be a " story book " for all ages, and a release in this format was made in 1998.

The first chapbook, written by Gaiman, comprised " Wall: A Prologue " short story, " Septimus ' Triolet " poem, " Song Of The Little Hairy Man ", and " The Old Warlock's Reverie: A Pantoum " poem.