Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist Clive Barker, prolific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, and artist H. R. Giger.

As a result, Adams later stated that he was not entirely happy with the book, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author Neil Gaiman described as " patronising and unfair ".

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.

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

However, weeks later Berger asked Gaiman if he was interested in doing a Sandman series.

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.

The first was a 2002 suit in which McFarlane contested with writer Neil Gaiman over the rights to some supporting Spawn characters created by Gaiman in issue # 9 of the Spawn series and over payment for later works featuring those characters.

A later Gaiman novel, Anansi Boys, follows the sons of Anansi as they discover each other and their heritage.

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.

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.

In literature, he appears in American Gods by Neil Gaiman, as " Czernobog ", and much later in the novel as " Bielebog " ( it is implied that the two are different aspects of the same character, sharing the same existence, but represent symbolic seasons ).

The Books of Magic is a four-issue English-language comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, published by DC Comics, and later an ongoing series under the imprint Vertigo.

Gaiman's participation was later lampooned in " Ghastly's Ghastly Comic ", calling him " Neil ' Eighteen Pages ' Gaiman ".

Gaiman wrote the screenplay in February 2002, and said that they always knew that it would be a coming of age story about a girl on a quest, but that later they learned " that it really was just the story of the relationship between a girl and her mother.

This page was later reprinted in the star-studded ( Moore, Hunt Emerson, Gaiman, Gibbons, Dave McKean, etc.

The line was opened in 1888 and later extended from Trelew to Gaiman, Dolavon and finally to Las Plumas.

The revival of the character was due in part to the success of a later, related character created by Neil Gaiman ; Dream of the Endless, whose adventures were then being published under the title of The Sandman ( hence the need for a more elaborate title for the older character's adventures ).

Gaiman later said, " It was terrifying from my point of view to read this first short story that had so much assurance ...

" Murder Mysteries " is a fantasy short story by Neil Gaiman later collected in his collection Smoke and Mirrors.

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.

Their name is a tribute to Neil Gaiman, who later wrote the episode " Day of the Dead ".

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

In April 2011 it was announced that American Gods will be adapted into a series for HBO by Playtone ( Tom Hanks ' production company ), with Robert Richardson & Gaiman writing the pilot.

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.

Neil Gaiman adapted the story for Snow White, Blood Red, an anthology of children's fairy tales retold for adults.

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

Between 2004 and 2007 Vess adapted a poem by Neil Gaiman into a children's book, Blueberry Girl.

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.

Although created before the two met, the character Delirium from Gaiman's The Sandman series ( or even her sister Death ) is inspired by Amos ; Gaiman has stated that they " steal shamelessly from each other ".

* Neil Gaiman named a debauched bar in the underworld " The Hellfire Club " in his epic comic-book series The Sandman.

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

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

* In the Vertigo comic book series, The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, the notion that Faerie pays a sacrificial tithe to Hell is mentioned in the storyline " Season of Mists ".

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 uses " The Tempest ", a play fundamentally about change, endings, and new beginnings, to finish the series.

The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics.

The Sandman grew out of a proposal by Neil Gaiman to revive DC's 1974 – 1976 series The Sandman, illustrated by Jack Kirby and Ernie Chua and written by Joe Simon and Michael Fleisher.

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

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

By issue # 11, Gaiman began incorporating elements of the Kirby Sandman series, including the changes implemented by Thomas.

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

Gaiman himself has summarized the plot of the series ( in the foreword to Endless Nights ) as " The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.

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.

* 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.

It also features a lengthy interview about the series with Gaiman himself.

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.

* The Sandman: The Kindly Ones ( 1996 ), the ninth volume of The Sandman comic book series by Neil Gaiman

Dream is a fictional character and the protagonist of DC Comics ' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman.