Creatures of the Night by Neil Gaiman; Michael Zulli, ill. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2004. ISBN: 978-1569719367

In the first of this collection of two short stories, a black cat sacrifices himself to protect his caretaker’s home from the devil itself, and in the second, a mysterious girl is thought to be the daughter of owls.

Medium: pen and ink, paint, watercolors

Rating: 3Q/3P

Literary device utilized: simile

Example: “He looked like a small panther, and he moved like a patch of night.”

submitted July 2009 by Josh Mitchell