I won't spoil the rest, but suffice it to say that Coraline is a brilliantly creepy tale for both children and adults (although, according to Gaiman, adults tend to find it more unsettling). but then it becomes clear that she wants Coraline to stay with her. This Other Mother is more fun than Coraline's real mother at first. In her Other apartment there is her Other Mother, who has buttons for eyes. Only, it's not bricked up when Coraline opens it - and through the door she finds an Other World, almost exactly like her own world. While exploring one day, she finds a bricked up door in her family's new apartment.
Of all the nightmarish monsters in the literary canon, few are more adept at reducing one's limbs to a quivering jelly than the Other Mother from Neil Gaiman's Coraline. And if you're not careful, she'll keep you for good. Or maybe a tail made of heavy, dark wood. Or else she has glass eyes that glint in the dark.
Except she has big, black buttons for eyes.
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