Happily Ever After. Neil Gaiman opens his book with an epigraph about fairy tales, and in a lot of ways Coraline itself is a fairy tale. It's not a Disney fairy tale, though; it's more Brothers Grimm style. The Grimm fairy tales were dark and creepy and a little twisted; Coraline is all of these things.

What was the inspiration of Coraline?

Gaiman shared that the idea for the story came from hearing his own daughter, Holly, tell him scary stories early in the '90s. He went into a bookshop looking for “really good horror for 4 to 5-year-old” and obviously there wasn't much, so he just decided to write it himself.

Is Coraline the movie based on a book?

Samantha The 2009 stop-motion film "Coraline" was based on Neil Gaiman's book of the same name, which was published in 2002.