The Chronicles of Narnia a young girl hiding in a wardrobe. Neil Gaiman's young-adult horror novella "Coraline" has been compared to "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", as both books involve young girls travelling to magical worlds through doors in their new houses and fighting evil with the help of talking animals. His "Sandman" comic book series also features a Narnia-like "dream island" in its story arc entitled "A Game of You". When the island is unmade by its creator Morpheus, the inhabitants march into the shadow of his cloak in a scene visually similar to Aslan's judgement of the inhabitants of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia song "Further Up, Further In" from the album "Room to Roam" by The Waterboys is heavily influenced by "The Chronicles of Narnia", with the title coming from a passage in "The Last Battle". C. S. Lewis is acknowledged in the liner notes as an influence. A convert to Christianity in later life, Lewis had authored a number of works on Christian apologetics and other literature with Christian-based themes before writing the "Narnia" books. The character Aslan is widely accepted by literary academia as being based on Jesus Christ. Lewis did not initially plan to incorporate Christian theological concepts into his