Fantasy / horror author Neil Gaiman uses the " Larry Talbot " character in two selections from his short story collection Smoke and Mirrors.

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.

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

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

A collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe ( cover by Gahan Wilson, with interior illustrations by Randy Broecker and Earl Geier ), it was published with two different covers by the American Fantasy Press ( one crediting " Gaiman and Wolfe ", the other crediting " Wolfe and Gaiman ".

Also, in The Sandman issue " Calliope " written by Neil Gaiman and pencilled by Kelley Jones, a character, Richard Madoc, writes a book " The Cabaret of Dr. Caligari ", an obvious pseudonym.

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.

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 ).

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

At the 1991 awards, comic book The Sandman issue # 19 " A Midsummer's Night Dream ", by Neil Gaiman, won the Award for Best Short Fiction.

* " Odd and the Frost Giants ", Neil Gaiman ( Bloomsbury ; HarperCollins )

While promoting the novel, Neil Gaiman said that it was " unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years ", a statement which has most often been read hyperbolically.

( 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.

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.

Pratchett calls it a " shared joke ", and in the dedication to Equal Rites thanks Gaiman for lending him the last surviving copy of the book.

He illustrated " The Land of Summer's Twilight ", one of the four episodes in the original The Books of Magic mini-series, and also worked on three issues of Gaiman ’ s critically acclaimed Sandman series ( both series were initially published by DC Comics as part of their shared universe, but later moved to the new " mature readers " Vertigo imprint / universe ).

Gaiman used the location again in his short story " Murder Mysteries ", which is set in the Silver City, and features the angel Raguel's investigation of the first murder ever.

*" Hold Me ", a John Constantine tale with art by frequent Gaiman collaborator Dave McKean, originally published as Hellblazer # 27 ;

*" 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.

In 2005 they published a three-part re-issue of Ted McKeever's Eddy Current, and also one ( of three planned ) " Bojeffries Terror Tomes ", reprinting The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse, and featuring additional work by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, Ramsey Campbell and David Lloyd, Michael T. Gilbert and Dave Dorman, Warren Ellis and Steve Pugh, and also including Ted McKeever's Eddy Current and a solo tale of Eddy Current's Nun.

He is the fourth eldest of the Endless, and is depicted as a big, red-haired, bearded man ( somewhat resembling actor Brian Blessed ; Gaiman has mentioned that he would like Blessed to play Destruction in the event of a Sandman movie ).

Having introduced Shakespeare, Gaiman then decided to tell the story of the first play that the writer wrote for Dream in payment of the bargain.

Jones was cast due to writer Neil Gaiman wanting an actress, in the words of Jones, who is " odd ; beautiful but strange looking, and quite funny " to play the role of Idris.

* 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.

While initially hesitant about releasing annotated editions, Gaiman eventually changed his mind when he forgot a reference when asked about it by a reader.

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.

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

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

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

In addition, McKean's artwork also graced the inside pages of the public service comic Death Talks about Life ( 1994 ), an issue of The Dreaming (# 8 ), two issues of the DC-published Hellblazer (# 27 with Gaiman and # 40 with Delano ) and his and Neil Gaiman's OGN Mr Punch ( 1994 ).

* 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.

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.

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

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.

Further collaborations with Gaiman produced the graphic novels Signal to Noise in 1992 ( previously serialized in The Face magazine ), about a dying filmmaker and his hypothetical last film ; and Mr. Punch, which explored similar themes as Violent Cases through the imagery of the Punch and Judy show.

At that stage, DeMatteis also decided to step back, and DC instead approached popular writer Neil Gaiman and asked him to come up with a four-issue prestige-format series " about our magic characters ".

Author Neil Gaiman, whose work is frequently seen as exemplifying the monomyth structure, says that he started The Hero with a Thousand Faces but refused to finish it: " I think I got about half way through The Hero with a Thousand Faces and found myself thinking if this is true — I don ’ t want to know.

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau ( who reviewed the book for the New York Times ), and was called “ one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written ” by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.

Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion is a book by Neil Gaiman about Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

After being shown a short film directed by McKean, Lisa Henson contacted Gaiman in 2001 about the project, asking if McKean would be interested in directing and if Gaiman was interested in coming up with the story for the film.

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.