Since he unleashed The Sandman comic book series in 1989, Gaiman has become a cultural phenomenon and nowhere was that more evident than at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica on Monday night, where hundreds had lined up to catch the writer in person. Alternately frightening and heartwarming, The Graveyard Book is classic Gaiman. “One of things that I wanted to do when I was writing the book was create a world in which dead people are never dangerous, dead things are never bad,” says acclaimed fantasy writer Neil Gaiman of his latest work, The Graveyard Book.Īnd so the author of such bestsellers as American Gods and Coraline took inspiration from the graveyard where his now-grown son once rode his tricycle, based the setting physically on four other cemeteries and re-imagined Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book to tell the story of Nobody “Bod” Owens, who wanders into a graveyard following the murder of his family and is raised by a community of ghosts that teaches him the way of the dead.
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