Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Looking for a really creepy story? Neil Gaiman's "Coraline" is just the book.

Coraline is a young girl who moves to a new apartment. Bored and looking for something to do on a rainy day, she discovers and unlocks a forgotten door that leads her to a magical new place.

But any similarities to the Chronicles of Narnia end here.

Gaiman, who re-invented the graphic novel back in the 1980's with his ground-breaking "Sandman" series, doesn't shy away from the spooky stuff, even with his work for younger readers. In fact, the fariy-tale-gone-horribly-wrong tone of "Coraline" only adds to the shadowy eeriness of the book. He is one of those rare authors who understands that what makes a story really scary is the implied stuff, the monsters we don't really see, but know might be lurking under the bed, or behind the locked door.