Once Bod realizes that Abanazer isn’t playing fair with him, he realizes he made a mistake in coming here. But because Bod is still a child, he doesn’t seem to have the capacity to get out of this mess alone. The novel also seems to imply that Bod isn’t wrong to suspect that Abanazer is evil and dangerous. By making Abanazer—a living person—one of the novel’s antagonists, the novel emphasizes that the only safe place for Bod is in the graveyard, among the dead. In this way, the novel continues to subvert readers’ expectations about good and evil; while literature usually depicts evil ghosts and werewolves being vanquished by heroic humans, in this novel, the ghosts are kindly and the human is evil.