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In his Newberry award-winning novel, The Graveyard Book,

Nail Gaiman introduces us to a band of wondering ghouls. They're about to whisk a sad little boy off to their city of Gullheim.

As is common with ghouls in fiction, these fellows were once human. Now they've taken as their ghoul names,

the name of the corpse they first devoured.

Guyanne describes them thus.

Down the street and up the hill came the Duke of Westminster, the Honorable Archibald Fitzhue, and the Bishop

of Bath and Wales, slipping and bounding from shadow to shadow, lean and leathery, all sinews and cartilage

wearing raggedy clothes all a tatter, and they bounded and loped and sculpted and leapfrogged over

dust fence keeping to the dark side of the hedges.

They were small, like full-sized people who had shrunk in the sun, and they spoke to each

other in undertones saying things like, if your grace has any more blooming idea of where we is than us do I'd be

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