Neil Gaiman

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[edit] March 16, 2009 Nailing

• book: "The Graveyard Book"

• author of The Graveyard Book, which is fitting because Stephen will bury him!

• pre-chewed bone to pick regarding the book

• opening line of his children's book
  • "There was a hand in the darkness and it held a knife"

• he claims all children's fiction contains an element of danger
  • he used Peter Cottontail as an example

• the moral of the book is dead people are nice
  • life is worth living, it has meaning

• there is a danger children will no longer be afraid of graveyards

• how dead people raise children
  • they have no teats
    • he cheated: a vampire lives in the graveyard, who goes out at night

• he's making it all up (regarding the dead people)

• there are people on the other side of Dr. Colbert's perception

• Gaiman loved HP Lovecraft & JRR Tolkein

• he has an accent
  • doesn't sound America
    • he is originally from England

• his book won a Newberry Award
  • taking it from an American writer

• re-let the cat out of the bag about Stephen's book

• Gaiman recommended Art Speigleman as an American illustrator