The Guide claims to be 83rd in a series of editions inaugurated by the fictional Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead in 1915, and contains generally humorous entries ( in varying degrees of darkness ) with disease descriptions by several popular authors such as Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore and Michael Moorcock, which together detail the " secret medical history " of the 20th Century.

Suffering from shell shock, Spencer is invalided out of the army after hammering nails into his own skull ( in his introduction to Newman's collection The Original Doctor Shade and Other Stories, Neil Gaiman claims that " Kim Newman was the original inspiration for Pinhead ").

Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.

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.

Also, The Sandman and its spin-offs have won 26 Eisner Awards, including three for Best Continuing Series, one for Best Short Story, four for Best Writer ( Neil Gaiman ), seven for Best Lettering ( Todd Klein ), and two for Best Penciller / Inker ( one each for Charles Vess and P. Craig Russell ).

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.

Other writers who have written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan.

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.

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.

The connections that both Bull and Garland had with the science fiction and fantasy communities allowed them to have an unusually notable group of people writing songs for and with them, including Jane Yolen, Alan Moore, and Neil Gaiman.

Trina Robbins, James Vance and Neil Gaiman have provided introductions to collected editions of the series.

Though it is not uncommon for fantasy novels to be ranked on The New York Times Best Seller list, to date the only fantasy novelists whose works have debuted at number one on the list are Robert Jordan in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2009, George R. R. Martin in 2005, and 2011, Neil Gaiman in 2005, Terry Goodkind in 2006, and Patrick Rothfuss in 2011.

* In the 2003 short story " A Study In Emerald " by Neil Gaiman, the old ones are great inhuman monsters that have taken control of earth's governments.

Past guest lecturers have included George McGovern, Ralph Nader, Ann Coulter, Michael Moore, Manning Marable, Neil Gaiman, Chuck Klosterman and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

( Gaiman and Seeing Ear Theatre went on to collaborate on an adaptation of another story, " Snow, Glass, Apples ", and the two adaptations have been released together on CD under the title Two Plays for Voices.

Reception to the various incarnations of the story have been positive, with Publishers Weekly saying that the graphic novel's " crisp and vividly rendered drawings capture the haunting sense of loss and isolation Gaiman expresses in this mythic tale of love and jealousy.

People involved with the show such as Neil Gaiman who wrote " The Doctor's Wife " and Tom MacRae who wrote " The Girl Who Waited " have also expressed their concern with the axing of the programme.

Participants in the UK have included Tom Arden, John Brunner ( novelist ), John Clute, Jaine Fenn, Neil Gaiman, Mary Gentle, Ben Jeapes, Diana Wynne Jones, Gwyneth Jones, David Langford, Anne McCaffrey, George R. R. Martin, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, Karen Traviss, Kari Sperring, Bruce Sterling, Liz Williams and Patricia Wrede amongst many others.

Other people to have been published at Knave include Kim Newman, Dave Langford, and Neil Gaiman.

Berger reviewed the sketches ( along with some drawn by Gaiman ) and suggested Sam Kieth as the series ' artist.

This short comic was written by Gaiman and drawn by Dave McKean, and featured basic safe sex information about the transmission of HIV and AIDS.

A narrator, who is drawn to look like Gaiman, tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath who was once employed by Al Capone.

Keeler has influenced science fiction writers such as Neil Gaiman and Futurama producer Ken Keeler ( no relation ); Ken Keeler says in the DVD commentary for " Time Keeps On Slippin '" that the story " Strange Romance " from the book Y. Cheung, Business Detective was an inspiration for the episode.

Gaiman is godfather to her daughter and a poem written for her birth, Blueberry Girl, was published as a children's book of the same name in 2009.

* 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 ).

Gaiman stated this as the starting point for the character, and imagining " Who would own a cat like this?

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

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

* Rudd, David " An Eye for an ' I ': Neil Gaiman ’ s Coraline and the Question of Identity " Children ’ s Literature and Education 39 ( 3 ), 2008, pp. 159 – 168

Gaiman described A Game of You as " probably " his favorite volume in the series, " because it's most people's least favourite volume, and I love it all the more for that.

Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.

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

Gaiman had considered including characters from the " Dream Stream " ( including the Kirby Sandman, Brute, Glob, and the brothers Cain and Abel ) in a scene for the first issue of his 1988 miniseries Black Orchid.

While the scene did not make it into later drafts because Roy Thomas was using the characters in Infinity, Inc., Gaiman soon began constructing a treatment for a new series.

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

Gaiman had a finite run in mind for the series, and it concluded with issue # 75.

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.

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

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

* Vertigo: Winter's Edge ( 1997 – 1999 ): An annual one-shot issue featuring short stories from multiple Vertigo series, including short stories featuring Desire ( twice ) and Death by Gaiman with Bolton, Jones, and Zulli respectively.

While Gaiman saw Desire as being somewhere between David Bowie and Annie Lennox, Dringenberg saw it more in terms of Duran Duran ( what he describes as " sort of two-dimensional and slightly vapid ").

Gaiman agrees with Dringenberg's view by explaining that Desire had to be made both male and female, because the character represents everything someone might desire.

The idea for Desire living in its own body came from Gaiman deciding that desire lives under the skin.

During an interview, Hy Bender asks Gaiman why Desire sleeping with a mortal woman isn't against a rule in DC continuity stating that the Endless aren't allowed to mate with mortals.

Bender also asks Gaiman about Desire appearing as an antagonist in The Sandman.