As we’re coming up on Halloween, here’s an appropriately spooky read for the season: Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. A fascinating, original, and creepy little tale, this book is guaranteed to mesmerize you. Watch the book trailer below – narrated by none other than Neil Gaiman himself – and you’ll see why.
Book Jacket:
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs neither to the world of the living nor the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy – an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack by the man Jack – who has already killed Bod’s family…
You can read an excerpt here. Or even cooler – you can watch and listen as Neil reads the entire first chapter, here.
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