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'Twilight,' Neil Gaiman, And Why Children Are Fascinated By The Macabre

First Posted: 06/02/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:00 PM ET

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In case you hadn't noticed, there's a big streak of the supernatural running through a lot of children's fiction these days. Ghosts, vampires and skeletons are a recurring motif. The novels of Nick Gifford, Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl, Anthony Horowitz's The Power of Five series, Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire series and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy all feature terrifying alternative universes, witches, demons or evil fairies.

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11:15 PM on 04/03/2010
Neil Gaiman should never be mentioned in the same sentence as Twilight.

But yeah, this is nothing new. My own fascination with the macabre started early. As a kid, starting at around 4th grade, I became a huge fan of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps and Fear Street series, as well as Christopher Pike's Spooksville.
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