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[โ€“] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Coraline. The book is significantly creepier than the movie and manages to perfectly strike the uncanny valley

[โ€“] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is coralline supposed to be "kid friendly"? It's one of the few books I wasn't comfortable reading in alone in the dark, no way I let a kid read that

[โ€“] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Yup, story goes that the publisher thought it was too scary for children, so Neil Gaiman, the author, told the publisher to read it to her daughter. The daughter said it wasn't scary, and so it was published as a children's book. Years later, the daughter said that she was actually scared but lied about it because she wanted to know the ending