The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Fans of Neil Gaiman’s spooky “Coraline” will thrill to this tale of a boy raised by ghosts. Barely escaping being murdered with his family, Nobody “Bod” Owens finds sanctuary in a graveyard. He soon learns, with the help of its spectral inhabitants, how to fade, sleep in a tomb, avoid [...]
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - Review
Fool by Christopher Moore - Review
Fool: A Novel by Christopher Moore
Here’s the Cliff Notes you wished you’d had for King Lear—the mad royal, his devious daughters, rhyming ghosts and a castle full of hot intrigue—in a cheeky and ribald romp that both channels and chides the Bard and “all Fate’s bastards.” It’s 1288, and the king’s fool, Pocket, and his [...]
Virago Book of Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby - Review
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby
Ghosts just won’t lie still; their function is to disturb. Small wonder, perhaps, that women writers have proved especially interested in exploring how ill-used lives might reappear at domestic thresholds to register their grievances long after they have been supposedly laid to rest.
Review: Virago Book of Ghost [...]
Children’s Gothic Reviews
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 [...]
Underground by Kat Richardson - Interview
Underground (Greywalker, Book 3) by Kat Richardson
Fantasy author Kat Richardson told SCI FI Wire that her new novel, Underground, grew out of her desire to write a “monster in the sewer” book.
“There’s just no setting as perfect for a tale of ghosts and monsters eating unsuspecting people than a condemned and abandoned city hidden under [...]
Nation by Terry Pratchett - Review
Nation by Terry Pratchett
At one point in this excellent new novel, a boy named Mau desperately needs to find milk for a starving infant. Unfortunately, he’s on a virtually deserted island, and there just aren’t any cows or nursing mothers around. There is only one possible source of nourishment for the baby, and Mau risks [...]
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