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.

The task of annotating the series was undertaken by Gaiman's friend Leslie S. Klinger of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes who worked from the original scripts given to him by Gaiman.

In Gaiman's afterword to the book, he describes the story was a retelling of an existing Japanese legend.

The character, who appeared three times in Gaiman's series, was revived due to the popularity of Gaiman's 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.

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.

Dringenberg points out the primary difference between their vision for Desire being that Gaiman's idea for the character was essentially sexless and unsatisfying.

In addition, Steve Gerber, an influential force on many of the Vertigo writers, provided the miniseries Nevada, which was written based on Neil Gaiman's reiteration of a frequent request to write something more about the characters in " the obligatory comic book fight scene " in Howard the Duck # 16.

Neil Gaiman's preferred Sandman spin-off had not had an easy time being published, due to its title and main character, but Carey was able to helm it for a Sandman-equalling 75 issues ( and a 2002 one-shot-Nirvana ) for 6 years.

In Neil Gaiman's television serial and novel Neverwhere, the Great Beast of London is said to be a bull that ran into the Fleet while it was still partially open to the air, and vanished underground into the depths of London Below, growing huge and fat off the sewage.

The annual saw Neil Gaiman's first credit as " creative consultant " for The Books of Magic, a position which DC Comics paid him to carry out despite the fact that even when he did make comments on the script, he was told that it was too late for anything to be changed.

In 2000, Amano illustrated Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters, which won several awards and was nominated for a Hugo Award.

Chosen as Gaiman's replacement, John Ney Rieber discovered that a gaming guide to the DC universe had made this assumption, and worried that a key part of the Tim Hunter character-that he was a normal teenage boy-might be lost if this was true.

This story appears to be referred to in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics: Aristeas was a poet who lived around 700 BCE, and became by transformation one of many ravens who have acted as both adviser and assistant to The Endless known as Dream.

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 Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic series Zatanna becomes friends and even temporary guardian to Timothy Hunter, a boy destined to become the greatest wizard in the world, and his girlfriend Molly who at the time was cursed by the Queen of the Fairies and unable to touch anything in the human world including the ground.

Others simply felt that Gaiman's involvement led to inflated expectations ; one review noted that while reading " I [...] felt at times like maybe it was all a little bit too cute, a little bit too in-jokey.

Garland said that if they screwed up in front of such a huge crowd, she was going to change her name to Pansy Smith and move into Gaiman's basement ; in his blog, Gaiman says this was his suggestion.

She later helped bring Neil Gaiman's work to a mass audience by having him write The Sandman.

Lucien the Librarian, a character later used in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series, was created by Levitz and artist Nestor Redondo.

Russell has also collaborated with writer Neil Gaiman, illustrating issue # 50 of Gaiman's comic series Sandman, titled " Ramadan ", later included in the collection The Sandman: Fables and Reflections.

Russell also illustrated the first story in Gaiman's later Sandman graphic novel, Endless Nights, and adapted both Gaiman's short story " Murder Mysteries " and his children's book Coraline into comics form.

An incidental character called Ruthven appears in later issues of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comic ; this Ruthven is a man with a rabbit's head, as well as prominent " vampire " fangs.

Gemworld later appeared in Neil Gaiman's The Books of Magic # 3 ( January 1990 ), and in the Hunter: The Age of Magic spin-off series, where Timothy Hunter went to a wizard's academy there.

McFarlane had initially agreed that Gaiman retained creator rights on the characters, but later claimed that Gaiman's work had been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's co-creations entirely, pointing to the legal indicia in Spawn # 9 and the lack of legal contract stating otherwise.

McFarlane had initially agreed that Gaiman retained co-creator rights on the characters but later claimed that Gaiman's work had been work-for-hire and that McFarlane owned all of Gaiman's creations entirely, pointing to the legal indicia in Spawn # 9, and the lack of legal contract stating otherwise.

* Neil Gaiman's Sandman character, Charles Rowland, one of the Dead Boy Detectives, is a reference to Childe Roland, particularly in his The Children's Crusade miniseries ( 1993 ), which prominently features a dark tower, a motif later picked up by the Books of Magic series.

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

* Neil Gaiman's graphic novels The Sandman are partially set in " The Dreaming ", referred to in early volumes as " Dreamtime ", and also reference " Fiddler's Green "

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.

The Queen is a tragic hero protagonist of Neil Gaiman's 1994 short story " Snow, Glass, Apples ", epicted as struggling desperately — and ultimately, unsuccessfully, as the " happy ending " takes place on schedule — to save the kingdom from her unnatural and monstrous stepdaughter.

In fantasy author Neil Gaiman's 2004 short story " The Problem of Susan ", the protagonist, Professor Hastings, is depicted dealing with the grief and trauma of her entire family's death in a train crash.

* Neil Gaiman's 1996 television series Neverwhere depicts highly fictionalized dwellers in their world of " London Below ", who are literally invisible to those who dwell aboveground.

* In Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, " Brief Lives ", Chapter 8 ( issue # 48 ), Delirium recites the rhyme, then picks more cherries and adds her own lines: " Elf lord ... ivy ... vinegar ... toad ... virgin ... pilgrim ... kangaroo ..."

He carved himself a niche playing all sort of grandfatherly types ", Susan Sheridan " Susan never found anything major to do with the role, but that wasn't her fault, it was my fault " and Roy Hudd " To this day he still claims he doesn't know what it was all about " can be found in Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Gaiman's early short stories, including " We Can Get Them For You Wholesale ", were published within the magazine ; he also worked at the magazine in many roles, including celebrity interviewer and book reviewer.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.