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Tag: Coraline

Posted on October 26, 2018October 26, 2018

Creature Feature: Monstrous Mothers, Talking Animals And The Beldam In Neil Gaiman’s Coraline

By Charlotte Stevenson

As Halloween falls across the land, now more than ever monsters leap to life from the pages of books around the world. In the first post of our Creature Feature series, Charlotte Stevenson discusses the concept of monstrous humans with a focus on Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. 

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