Coraline is a dark fantasy horror film and a children's novella. The film is a 2009 American stop-motion animated movie directed by Henry Selick, based on Neil Gaiman's novella of the same name
. The novella, written by Neil Gaiman, was published in 2002 and tells the story of an 11-year-old girl named Coraline Jones who discovers a parallel universe that is a mirror image of her own home
. The story is about her adventures in this alternate world, which is both dazzling and dangerous.