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 "Narnia" stories. Lewis maintained that the "Narnia" books were not allegorical, preferring to term their Christian aspects a "supposition". "The Chronicles" have, consequently, a large Christian following, and are widely used to promote Christian ideas. However, some Christians object that "The Chronicles" promote "soft-sell paganism and occultism" due to recurring pagan imagery and themes. In later years, both Lewis and the "Chronicles" have been criticised (often by other authors of fantasy fiction) for gender role stereotyping, though other authors have defended Lewis in this area. For example, Lucy gets a healing potion and a dagger, while Peter gets a sword.