Book guide
Coraline
Behind a bricked-up door, Coraline finds a perfect home with button-eyed parents who want to keep her.
Genre and trope pairingsFantasyPortal fantasyDark FantasyCaptiveDark FantasyDeadly gameDark FantasyHidden identityHorrorCaptiveHorrorGhostsHorrorIsolation
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About Coraline
Coraline discovers a door into another version of her life, where everything seems better at first. But her other mother’s love turns possessive and terrifying, forcing Coraline to rely on her courage and wit.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Fast
Content warnings
- confinement
- body horror
- child death
- kidnapping
- gaslighting
- child abuse
- emotional abuse
- abandonment
- animal death
