![]() Just as in The Jungle Book, the killer does return years later to finish the job of killing Bod. He makes friends with both the living and the dead, and has countless adventures around the haunted property. He is given free reign of the grounds and is provided for by a man (implied to be a vampire) named Silas.īod grows up in and around the graveyard, learning the ghoulish arts of Haunting and Dream Walking. The baby finds his way to a nearby graveyard and is adopted by the ghosts Mr. Nobody "Bod" Owens escapes from his nursery just before a killer named Jack (or "the man Jack") kills the rest of his family. So, when an orphan baby boy winds up in a cemetery, who should raise him but the inhabitants there? Ghosts! The Graveyard Book is essentially the same format and plot outline as the 1894 classic, but with one major difference - instead of the jungle, it takes place in a graveyard. His uncanny retelling of Kipling's The Jungle Book is no exception. ![]() Neil Gaiman is a master of mixing the elements of dark and whimsy to meet every reader's needs. ![]()
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