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

'Twilight,' Neil Gaiman, And Why Ch

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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