stackyFACTSSometimes the creepiest ideas come from bad keyboard skills. Neil Gaiman was trying to type the name 'Caroline' but slipped up and typed 'Coraline' instead. He looked at the typo, realized it sounded profoundly unsettling and unique, and decided to build an entire dark fantasy novella around a girl with that exact name.
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