'Thrilling, elegant and joyously macabre. You will love it to death'

Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles

'Suspenseful, well-told and touching'

The Sunday Times

'A captivating piece of work, light as fresh grave dirt, haunting as the inscription on a tombstone'

Financial Times

'Gaiman, who reads his own story with precision, has the knack of making you root harder for his good characters and cringe from the baddies; he also writes like an angel, trailing metaphors of blood and mists that re-echo through the tale'

The Times