The Last Temptation, Book II
Act II: Unholy War continues Steven heads home after his visit to the theater. During supper Steven asks his parents if they know anything of a Theater in this town. His father replies when he was Steven's age some guy ran a theater in town and doesn't remember details but says something about him stealing children. But quickly Steven's mother assures him that his father is merely telling a fib.

As Steven heads to bed that night he sees The Showman in his mother's appearance saying "I never stole any children. It was a fair trade. Anyone who came with me wanted to come. Just like you will." Steven just shakes it off to a terrible day and goes to sleep which The Showman appears in his dreams. Mercy appears in the dream as well to warn Steven not to trust The Showman.

The next morning on the way to school Steven walks by where the Theater no longer resides. At school images of The Showman appears on the faces of different people in class from his Teacher, Coach, Cafeteria worker, Janitor and even classmates as they all tempt Steven to join The Showman.

Book II shows some Alice trivia in the background mostly in the school. such as on the blackboard you see words written referring to Alice songs like 'My Stars", "Schools Out", "Guttercats vs Jets", "Public Animal #9". All these songs are from "School's Out" album. As for one of the students wearing a t-shirt that reads "Hey Stoopid" another album by Alice. You see a paper tacked on the bulletin board which looks like a profile of Alice as The Showman. Also one of Steven's friend is wearing a Wolf mask which reminds me of Alice's "Monster Dog" movie he made back in the 80's.
As for some other messages in this book you see Steven wearing a Spider-Man t-shirt. In the classroom during the Halloween class party there are students in costume as Spider-Man, Wolverine and one very Morpheus character from Neil Gaiman's Sandman stories.
Steven has the book titled "Something Wicked This Way Comes" on his desk which is the style of this story Gaiman and Alice both thought of as an influence in telling this tale.