Neil Gaiman's novella, Coraline, was published in 2002 and has since become a classic. The journey taken by the young main character is one of the darkest stories told in a children's book. This made it the perfect source material for a Henry Selick film.
As the young Coraline Jones traverses a twisted, terrifying realm which mirrors—and corrupts—her own world, her skills as a self-proclaimed “explorer” are put to the ultimate test.
British writer Neil Gaiman published numerous science fiction and fantasy novels, children’s books, graphic novels, and comics. Known for his witty, often dark sense of humor and imagination, Gaiman won many literary awards, including the Newbery Medal for the children’s book The Graveyard Book (2008).
In Gothic fiction the reader passes from the reasoned order of the everyday world into a dark region governed by supernatural beings, a region that inspires dread and horror, where decay abounds and death is always at hand.
From wild and remote landscapes to vulnerable heroines; from violent and erotic fantasies to supernatural and uncanny happenings; Gothic fiction has intrigued and unsettled readers for more than two centuries.
Gothic literature is a genre of fiction which first became popular during the 18th century. Although many of the most famous Gothic novels were written during the Victorian times, conventions of the Gothic genre are still featured in popular culture today.
Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique in which a physical object is moved in small increments and photographed at every step. When these images are stringed together and played rapidly, the things in them appear to carry on their own.
Stop motion animation is a simple yet effective way to bring the everyday to life. Clever camera tricks and an eye for the minute details combine to create captivating moving images.
There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house? The one behind the old door in the drawing room.
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
"You may think you know this story. There's a young queen, about to be married. There are some good, brave, hardy dwarves; a castle, shrouded in thorns; and a princess, cursed by a witch, so rumour has it, to sleep forever. But no one is waiting for a noble prince to appear on his trusty steed here. This fairy tale is spun with a thread of dark magic, which twists and turns and glints and shined. A queen might just prove herself a hero, if a princess needs rescuing ..."
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
Sophie doesn't believe in ghosts - that is, until her best friend, Jay, downloads a ouija board app on his phone. Joking around, Jay asks it, When will I die? The board tells him, tonight . So when Sophie finds out that Jay has been killed, she knows his death was more than a tragic accident.
A young scientist has created a living being out of dead flesh and bone. His creation, however, turns out to be a frightful monster! Now, Victor Frankenstein must stop his creation before the monster's loneliness turns to violence.
Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. She knows that the memories she's blocking will help make sense of her brother's behavior and the strange and threatening sensations she feels in this house, but will she be able to put the pieces together in time?
When Lily Frost's parents move her from the only home and best friend she's ever known to a country town called Gideon, things are dire. Lily knows no one - but someone seems to know her. And that someone isn't exactly the welcoming type.
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