History Literature / Coraline

** Not to mention some of the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything creepy vibes]] the Other Mother gives off toward Coraline. The song by Azam Ali, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubFgapoPmQI ''The Cold Black Key'']], inspired by the story, actually seems to play up this side of their relationship. ''She courts you now...'''

** Not to mention some of the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything creepy vibes]] the Other Mother gives off toward Coraline.

* CharacterTitle: Coraline, starring Coraline.

->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQC0QVXa33o What is there to be frightened of, about buttons?]]''\\
-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman'''

* VampireInvitation: Children can't have buttons sewn into their eyes unless they agree to it.

* {{Matricide}}: Played with. The Other Mother has put her Mother to the grave, "And when I caught her trying to crawl out, I put her back in". So the Mother of Other Mother isn't perhaps dead, by for all intents and purposes, she is.

* {{Matricide}}: Played with. The Other Mother has put her Mother to the grave, "And when she tries to get out, I put her back in". So the Mother of Other Mother isn't exactly dead, by for all intents and purposes, she is.

** That stone-with-a-hole-in-it? That's a self-bored stone, which according to CelticMythology tradition would allow you to see through faerie illusions.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Semi-subverted. The Other Mother has put her Mother to to grave, "And when she tries to get out, I put her back in". So the Mother of Other Mother isn't exactly dead, by for all intents and purposes, she is.

* WordOfGay: [[WordOfGod According to Gaiman himself]] on his Tumblr, [[http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/96248654066/hello-i-was-reading-coraline-again-and-something-hit Miss Spink and Miss Forcible are a couple]].

The book is [[TropeCodifier very, very, VERY much]] WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids.

* BlackEyesOfEvil:[[spoiler: Black ''button'' eyes of evil.]]

* SelfMadeOrphan: The Other Mother.
** "I swear it on my own mother's grave." "Does she have a grave?" "Oh yes, I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back."

* DarkWorld: The Other World is a perfect example of this.

The book is [[TropeCodifier very, very, ''very'' much]] WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids.

The book is very, very, ''very'' much WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids.

A 2002 novella written by NeilGaiman. Coraline Jones is a girl with loving but distracted and inattentive parents. Having recently moved into a new home, she finds life boring. Then, one afternoon, she opens a mysterious door in her house. And behind that door lies a different world where Coraline finds doting parents who give her wonderful toys and home-cooked meals. But something oddly sinister lurks just beneath the surface...

-- '''NeilGaiman'''

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: "Protective Coloration", anyone?]]

* StrangeGirl: Coraline.

* IncrediblyLamePun: After her parents disappear, Coraline remarks to Miss Spink and Miss Forcible that she thinks she's become a "single-child family".

* XMeetsY: ''Creator/StephenKing'' meets ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.

** Not the mention some of the [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything creepy vibes]] the Other Mother gives off toward Coraline.