Coraline is a dark fantasy children's novella by British author Neil Gaiman , and published in 2002 , Even the cover is creepy and coraline looks like she's made of clay . . I have seen the movie and now read the book and to be honest , I among many others found the book more creepier than the movie than ever .
So the book is definitely more creepy and dark , and oh so black , even the blood from the other mother . Coraline is still described as a strong young teen who even though scared she is still so very brave , and goes into this new world with a plan , more so than she did in the movie . Now the rats in this book have real red bright blood , as the cat killed a rat to help coraline get what she needed to get out of that world , the rats seemed more dark and scratchy and awfully scary , with fur as black as coal or as night itself , and these rats had bloody red eyes , they peered in the night , at only those they want to fright . You notice the rats sooner in the book , than the movie , and they sing a creepy song through out the book , which just gets more creepier the more they sing it in the book, which I think is only 3 , or 4 times , we also notice the door leading to the other world , is bigger and more ornate than the one in the movie , its just a small wooden door which is actually similar to the one I have behind my sofa , which I call the under stair cupboard , and behind this ornate door , was a wall made of bricks , no place to go ,.. unlike the movie . BLOOD , DARK , BLACK , SCARY FEATURES OF THIS BOOK , COME TO LIFE MORE SO THAN THE MOVIE , HE HAS CREATED A PRETTY SCARY ATMOSPHERE with all the descriptions and colors , or should I say colorless of this world they are in , grey mist and darkness befalls this world no color its just greyness . Creations the other mother made to lure in coraline to a fantastic house with fantastic parents , but all she needed to do was sew big black shinny buttons into her eyes and give up her soul to the other mother , and forget her own mother at the same time .which the other mother stole , later in the book , well actually sooner than the movie did . you kind of get the image of the other mother as being a spider like creature through her behavior which was erratic and chaos like , always moving in such a way that made you think of a big black thin scary spider , that was how the descriptions described her in some places , she moved her hands like spiders , always moving and tapping with her long thin fingers , with blood red nails , it just came across spider like to me , which if you hate spiders , it would have freaked you out more , even her black shinny hair swayed with the waves of being in water , but they were not in water , so that was saying her hair had a mind of its own , like being stacked up upon hundreds of spiders , playing along to one master spider . A full sets of teeth , and blood red nails , rats with eyes of blood red , there were no reflections of the other mother in the book , and just not many other characters in the book either , so it made the feeling of being more alone and creepier than the movie it self . I loved both the movie and the book , and even though I read the book after the movie , it described things that the movie never which I think added to the creepiness' . Descriptions like I killed my mother said the other mother , and how the creations looked and felt like clay were dripping and Rotting , and decaying in this world . I just loved the whole book , and I would definitely re read this book again . Im not gona give the story line away , but its just a fabulous read and i recommend you all watch the movie and then read the book , or vice versa . 4**** out of 5*****
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