Her new novel is The House of Shattered Wings. For Tor.com she tagged her five creepiest monsters in fantasy, including:The Other Mother—Coraline by Neil GaimanRead about another entry on the list.
I hesitated a lot over picking this one, because Neil Gaiman has a knack for really scary creepy monsters and there were several others that I could have named. In the end, though… there’s little scarier than a thing that look like a dream mother—attentive, cooking better food and seemingly more loving—except that it turns out she steals eyes, keeps around the ghost-children she’s killed, and plans to do the same to Coraline….
Coraline appears among Shaun Byron Fitzpatrick's top seven awesomely scary novels and Sam Leith's top ten alternative realities.
--Marshal Zeringue
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