The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman 312 pages Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (2008) The Graveyard Book began with... death. Three of a family – the father, the mother, and the daughter – were assassinated by a man called Jack. But the youngest child – a boy barely two years old – escaped Jack’s knife when he crawled out of his cot and out the door, which had been left open by Jack. The baby crawled and tottered away into the night, unaware of Jack who was desperately trying to trace his whereabouts in order to finish him off, too. The infant eventually arrived at an old graveyard, where he was found by Mr and Mrs Owens, the spirits of a childless husband and wife who were interred in the graveyard some two hundred years ago. The couple was thinking of leaving the baby as he was, but an apparition of the slain mother appeared at that moment to plead Mrs Owens to protect her baby, indicating that someone was out there to harm him. Without much information regarding what really hap