The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
To get rid of the parents and allow the hero of this novel to set off on his own, the ever-thorough Neil Gaiman has them butchered in their beds. The boy escapes and ends up in the local cemetery, where, in a charming Jungle Book parallel, he is taken in [...]

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Beds, Black Ship, Cathy, Chris Priestley, Confusion, Dancer, David Roberts, G P Taylor, Ghosts, Gothic Imagination, Graveyard, Imagery, Jungle Book, Locals, Moll, Mundi, neil gaiman, Tales Of Terror, Wolves