I had heard of Neil Gaiman, but I did not know of The Graveyard Book... and I wasn't clever enough until about halfway through to realize that this was heavily inspired by The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. The stories each carry a nostalgic feel of: "Hey, I remember this" as I recall tales of Mowgli's life, but each of them is unique enough to give Gaiman's characters their own weight and significance. I am not one for reading about ghouls and ghosts and the paranormal, but I very much enjoyed The Graveyard Book.