Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book Reviews

“There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. ”

Written on: 31/10/2010 by Janet Lewison (43 reviews written)

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. If it sliced you, you might not even know you had been cut, not immediately.

The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet.

The street door was still open, just a little, where the knife and the man who held it had slipped in, and wisps of nighttime mist slithered and twined... (read more)