Flashback Friday
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Illustrations by Dave McKean
Published in 2008
Pages: 312
Genre: Fantasy, horror, children’s literature
“There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.”
A man stalks up the stairs of an English house, searching for his final victim. Blood drips from the knife in his hand as he nears the finish of his dark deed. Victory, however, is not to be his. So begins The Graveyard Book, the tale of a baby toddling into a graveyard and being taken in by those who walk (0r float) in the twilight. Setting the tone for the book, the opening details a killer known as the man Jack who looks for the remaining child of a family of four who were fated to fall to his blade; or so he thought.
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