NEIL GAIMAN, THE GRAVEYARD BOOK — One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls.... You will find it, waterstained and bulging, with cracked... stone, and a feeling... of abandonment.... If the grave makes you want to be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate.
| A. | Potentially spooky shift of work (2 wds.) | NIGHTWATCH |
| B. | Malevolent sprite in Germanic lore, the subject of a Schubert piece | ERLKING |
| C. | Seen without being present to the senses | IMAGINED |
| D. | Main character in "The Vampire Chronicles" | LESTAT |
| E. | Author of "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" (2 wds.) | GENEWOLFE |
| F. | Did as Dorian Gray did only in his portrait | AGED |
| G. | Put into a final resting place | INHUMED |
| H. | "Haystacks" artist | MONET |
| I. | Where a ghost hunter may look | ATTIC |
| J. | Weeping daughter of Tantalus | NIOBE |
| K. | Son of Nyx (Night); twin of Hypnos (Sleep) | THANATOS |
| L. | Rear half of a centaur | HORSE |
| M. | "___ is really long, especially near the end" (Woody Allen) | ETERNITY |
| N. | "Stop haunting me!" (2 wds.) | GOAWAY |
| O. | One who returns from the tomb as a spirit | REVENANT |
| P. | The depths of hell, or its angel | ABADDON |
| Q. | Ones found near a corpse | VULTURES |
| R. | What a malevolent person may cast (2 wds.) | EVILEYE |
| S. | "___ Frankenstein" (1974 film) | YOUNG |
| T. | "Horrible" homophone of Word Y. | AWFUL |
| U. | Motive in "The Cask of Amontillado" | REVENGE |
| V. | Dark urge connected to Word K. (2 wds.) | DEATHWISH |
| W. | Ominous goblin in the shape of a dog | BARGHEST |
| X. | Man-eating she-monster of fairy tales | OGRESS |
| Y. | Carrion; rubbish | OFFAL |
| Z. | Mischievous gremlin | KOBOLD |