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.

* R. Neil Scott, Flannery O ' Connor: An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism ( publisher page ), Timberlane Books, 2002

* Strauss, William & Howe, Neil, The Fourth Turning, An American Prophecy: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous With Destiny, 1998, Broadway Books, New York

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.

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.

* Neil Astley, publisher and founding editor of Bloodaxe Books, born in Portchester

Category: Books by Neil Gaiman

* Neil Steinberg, Hatless Jack — The President, the Fedora and the Death of the Hat, 2005, Granta Books

Shakey: Neil Young's Biography ( first Anchor Books edition, 2003 )

Shakey: Neil Young's Biography ( first Anchor Books edition, 2003 )

* Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson ( Crescent Books )

His first major comics work was the graphic novel London's Dark but he came to international attention when he painted the art on The Road to Nowhere, The fourth and final chapter of The Books of Magic mini-series, written by Neil Gaiman and released by DC / Vertigo in 1993.

* The Books of Magic: " The Road to Nowhere " ( with Neil Gaiman, 1990, tpb collects the 4 issue mini-series, DC, 1993 ISBN 1-56389-082-8 )

In 1991, Neil Gaiman brought the character back into the spotlight, when he featured him in the miniseries The Books of Magic.

Kyle Rayner is also featured in the Justice League of America book series by Dennis O ' Neil called Hero's Quest, published by Pocket Star Books in 2005.

* The Books of Magic comic book miniseries by Neil Gaiman features a running gag of the teenage protagonist Timothy Hunter, continually asking for, and being denied, a Southern Comfort by the adult characters.

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.

* Violent Cases by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean ( published through Titan Books )

* Neil Short, The Stalin and Molotov Lines: Soviet Western Defences 1926-41, Osprey Publishing, 2008, ISBN 1-84603-192-3 ( preview in Google Books )

Fictional descriptions of memetic engineering include Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation Trilogy ( New York: Bantam Books, 1991 ), George Gurdjieff's artificial mythology Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson ( New York: Penguin USA, 1999 ); Neil Stephenson's novels Snow Crash ( New York: Bantam Spectra, 1993 ) and The Diamond Age ( New York: Bantam Spectra, 1996 ); and Robert W. Chambers ' unearthly The King in Yellow ( Buccaneer Books, 1996 ) tome, which influenced seminal horror author H. P. Lovecraft.

Neil Barber, Pen & Sword Books 2002.

* 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 1990 Bolton worked on the first episode of The Books of Magic for DC Comics, written by Neil Gaiman.

* Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader ?, Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert ( DC Comics / Titan Books ) ( winner )