Horror

Coraline by Neil Gaiman Summary by Daniel McGuinness

Coraline is a girl that has just moved into a flat in a town near London. There is a weird man living upstairs and two old women living downstairs, there is also an empty flat. In their drawing room there is a locked door that used to lead to the empty flat but is now blocked by a brick wall. She decides to go see the two old women, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible who used to be actress’s, and they read her future in tea leaves, they say she is in danger so they gave her a stone with a hole in it for protection. While her mother is at the store and her father is in London she decides to get the keys and look behind the bricked off door. Instead of bricks there is a corridor. She went down the corridor and found a changed version of her flat. A version of her parents that said they were her other parents where there, but they had black buttons for eyes. She went out side and met a talking cat and befriended it. After that she saw the new, younger versions of Miss Spink and Miss Forcible put on a show. She explored farther from the flat and found nothing, literal nothingness. She met the cat again and went home, even though her other parents wanted her to stay so they could be a family. When she went home her parents weren’t there, the next day they still weren’t there so she called the police but they didn’t believe her parents were kidnapped. Coraline went to the other world because she thought her other mother stole them. The other mother denied it and locked her behind a mirror for punishment. Behind the mirror were three children whose souls had been stolen by the other mother. Coraline told them she would get their souls back, then the other mother let her out. Coraline challenged her that if she could find the souls and her parents the other mother would let her go. The other mother swore by her right had that she would let her go. By looking through the rock she could see the souls like a burning ember, they were in the form of marbles. One was in her other room, one was in Miss Spink’s and Miss Forcible’s flat, and one in the crazy mans flat. While she was finding these the world that her other mother had created got distorted. She went into the flat with the black cat and tricked her other mother into opening the door out she escaped by throwing the cat at her and grabbing her parents which were trapped in a snowglobe on the mantle of the fireplace. She had escaped, but while escaping she accidentally cut of the other mother’s right hand in the door and it wanted the key to the other world. What will happen next. This is a fascinating, and sometimes creepy book. If you like weird stories, this book is for you. 1/2