Halloween Treat

Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book will be available around Halloween. I’m even more interested in reading it, now that I know it’s a homage to The Jungle Book, however, instead of a boy being raised by animals when his family dies, a boy will be raised by ghosts in a graveyard when his family dies. For some reason, the idea of a living creature being brought up and taught how to live by the dead seems like a very intriguing premise (not to mention an excellent treat for Halloween).

Neil Gaiman has been commenting on his blog about the gestation of this project for the last several months on his blog. It’s always interesting to read about the workings, anxieties, and random tangents that are involved in the writing process (at least it is to me).

~ by LD on March 10, 2008.