The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman (2008) is a horrid looking book populated by creepy characters. It’s a book for children living a nightmare or looking for frightening dreams. An excessively long sentence, which is a forward to the story, describes it as “A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets. . .” Two unhappy children ride in a tiny makeshift boat through underground sewers filled with scary creatures. I think it may be a story about child trafficking, but I’m not sure. Four devious looking men lure one of the children with candy on the page for the letter e. “e’s for the Evil that lures and entices;” On the page for the letter u, there are several children tied up and chained: “U are the reader who shivers with dread;” These terrifying scenes are the work of Gris Grimly. This is the first time I threw a book in the garbage.
