Neil Gaiman
Coraline
N E I L G A I M A N
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVE McKEAN
I started this for Holly
I finished it for Maddy
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I. CORALINE DISCOVERED THE DOOR a little
while after they moved into the house.
II. THE NEXT DAY IT HAD stopped raining, but a
thick white fog had lowered over the house.
III. THE NEXT DAY THE SUN shone, and
Coraline’s mother took her into the near-
est large town…
IV. THE HOUSE LOOKED EXACTLY the same
from the outside. Or almost exactly the same: around…
V. CORALINE LOCKED THE DOOR of the
drawing room with the cold black key.
VI. CORALINE WAS WOKEN by the midmorn-
ing sun, full on her face.
VII. SOMEWHERE INSIDE HER Coraline could
feel a huge sob welling up.
VIII. THE OTHER MOTHER looked healthier than
before: there was a little blush to her
IX. OUTSIDE, THE WORLD HAD become a
formless, swirling mist with no shapes or
X. CORALINE WALKED UP THE stairs outside
the building to the topmost flat…
XI. ONCE INSIDE, IN HER FLAT, or rather, in the flat that was not hers, Coraline…
XII. HER
MOTHER
SHOOK
HER
gently
awake.“Coraline?” she said.
XIII. CORALINE’S PARENTS NEVER SEEMED to
remember anything…
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
—G. K. Chesterton
I.
CORALINEDISCOVEREDTHEDOORa little while after they moved into the house.