Neil Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series The Sandman influenced goths with characters like the dark, brooding Dream and his sister Death.

1996 ), which features George Alec Effinger's short " Seven Nights in Slumberland " ( where Nemo interacts with Neil Gaiman's characters The Endless ).

The first all stop motion 3D feature is Coraline ( 2009 ), based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling novel and directed by Henry Selick.

Gilliam has several projects in various states of development, including an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy novel Good Omens.

In Neil Gaiman's award winning novel American Gods, thunderbirds feature prominently.

The band was recruited to provide original songs for the Henry Selick-directed movie of Neil Gaiman's children's book Coraline, but were dropped because their music was not " creepy " enough.

Mead is mentioned many times in Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel, American Gods ; it is referred to as the drink of the gods.

The plot of Neil Gaiman's story Neverwhere broadly mirrors the Tannhauser myth.

In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.

These include Thursday's fictions by Richard James Allen and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.

These include Emma Bull's and Will Shetterly's Liavek, Robert Asprin's Thieves ' World, Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Terri Windling's Borderland Series.

* Stated in the acknowlegments as the inspiration for the setting of Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.

Livia appears in Neil Gaiman's comic " Distant Mirrors-August " collected in The Sandman: Fables and Reflections.

In Fables and Reflections, the seventh volume of Neil Gaiman's comic series The Sandman, the maenads feature in the story Orpheus, in which they gruesomely murder the titular character after he refuses to cavort with them ( echoing the events of the actual Greek myth of Orpheus ).

Ishtar is also a love interest for Destruction of The Endless in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic book series.

* 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.

In March 2011 it was announced via Neil Gaiman's web blog that while he and DC liked Eric Kripke and his approach, it didn't feel quite right.

He is one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.

Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman.

In Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion it is pointed out that essentially the same idea was used by the English humourist Paul Jennings in an article Ware, Wye, Watford, published in the late 1950s.

Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.

Neil Gaiman's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples of this device.

* In Neil Gaiman's Hugo Award winning short story " A Study in Emerald ", the Moriarty and Holmes of an alternate history reverse roles.

In Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Leucotios appears in the main character's dream of forgotten gods.

He has a small appearance in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, and implied to be Elvis.

* The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, a 1994 graphic novel by writer Neil Gaiman and artist Dave McKean, explores a boy's memories triggered by a Punch and Judy show.

His debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published in 2007 and will be adapted into a feature film by director Neil Jordan.

* The Sandman: Endless Nights, a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman

Inspired by the basic scenario of David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, the story centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle, in search of a missing girl the locals claim never existed.

* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).

According to biographer Neil McAleer, Clarke may have been uncertain about publishing the novel because of its thematic focus on the paranormal and transcendence with the alien Overmind.

* Stardust ( novel ), a 1998 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman

* Stardust ( 2007 film ), adapted from the Neil Gaiman novel

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

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

He also appears in Phillip Mann's alternate history series A Land Fit for Heroes, Judith Tarr's fantasy series, The Hound and the Falcon and the Alamut series, Robert Carter's " The Language of Stones " series, the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the books of the Welsh author Jenny Sullivan and in Jenny Nimmo's Snow Spider Trilogy.

The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler.

* In Neil Gaiman's best selling novel Neverwhere Islington is an angel that lives under London, named after the Angel tube station.

American Gods is a novel by Neil Gaiman that contains Anansi ( under the name Mr. Nancy ), among other mythological characters.

In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, soma is referred to be " concentrated prayer ", a drink enjoyed by the gods ( who feed on people's worship ), such as Odin.

* Mr. Punch, a fictional character in The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch graphic novel by Neil Gaiman