A delightfully creepy children’s book from one of the masters of contemporary intelligent sci fi/fantasy. Coraline moves into a new home with her parents and discovers a door leading to another house in which reside…people who are not QUITE her parents. This would have DEFINITELY given me nightmares once upon a time (and might still, for that matter).
When I was a kid we spent a long weekend in a holiday house in which I discovered a door to a secret room in one of the wardrobes, so my ten-year-old self LOVES this crap. I understand it was made into a movie in a Nightmare Before Christmas type style and I’m torn as to whether or not I want to watch it – I don’t think anything could really be scarier than what Gaiman conjured in my imagination.