Now that was fun - a parody of the apocalypse. It seems that the demons charged with delivering the antichrist to the family which was to raise him mislaid the infant. A perfectly ordinary child goes to that family and the antichrist goes to a perfectly ordinary family - and it is recommended that we refrain from wondering what happened to the extra baby.
I believe it includes every required element of the end times - including the four horsemen (mounted on motorcycles) and the antichrist's personal hellhound (morphed into a nondescript mongrel called "Dog") and a book of prophecy and all the rest.
The story in the endnotes about the writing of the book is almost as much fun as the story itself. I do intend to read the work of Gaiman himself; Coraline was just a teaser.
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