THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman is inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Such wonderful storytelling. If you are looking for something exciting and magical, imaginative and adventurous, you will not be disappointed with this. Garth Nix said: “I wish my younger self could have had the opportunity to read and reread this wonderful book, and my older self wishes that I had written it.”

The story opens with a man named Jack coming to the house to accomplish what needs to be done: to kill the whole family. When the man Jack is done with the father, the mother and the sister, he goes to look for the fourth and youngest member—a baby boy. Before this, the baby is awaken by some crashing sound and feeling bored after being awaken, ‘plots’ for an escape from his cot. He just decides to leave the house and totters up the hill, to the graveyard.

CORALINE by Neil Gaiman is a story for children but it is a rather dark one. I loved it.

Coraline is a little girl who lives with her parents in a huge old house together with other people who share the same house. Those other people are two old former actresses named Miss Spink and Miss Forcible who own three dogs, and an old man Coraline calls ‘the crazy old man’.

She loves to explore her surroundings.

NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman is an interesting read. When Richard Mayhew saves a young girl from a London sidewalk, his life changes from normal to literally, abnormal. The young girl, whose name is Door, comes from “London Below” where she escapes from two hired killers. The two killers are known as Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar, and they’d killed everybody in Door’s family.

Following the good deed, Richard’s fiancée chucks him, he lost his wonderful job at a securities firm, he lost his apartment; he very nearly loses his mind too.