Work · Novel · 2002

Coraline

Neil Gaiman, author · Dave McKean, illustrator

Publisher: Bloomsbury (UK) / HarperCollins (US)
Units: one novella, thirteen chapters

Neil Gaiman's illustrated horror novella about a bored, overlooked girl who finds a bricked-up door in her family's new flat that opens, only at night, onto a flattering other version of her home run by a button-eyed Other Mother who wants to sew buttons over her eyes and keep her forever.

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Novel 2002 → Film 2009 · Direct adaptationCoralineThe film keeps 21 of the novella's 23 mapped beats, including the button-eyed Other Mother, her offer to sew buttons over Coraline's eyes, and the three ghost children whose souls she holds. It moves the setting to an apartment house in Oregon and adds Wybie Lovat, a real-world friend the novel does not have.84composite · editorial

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