"Coraline," Neil Gaiman, Bloomsbury; 2002; 171 pp.

    "We are small, we are many
    We are many, we are small
    We were here before you rose,
    We will be here when you fall."

If you think this song is unnerving, here's what makes it positively eerie: It's sung by 25 red-eyed rats.

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