<em>Nethergrave</em> is a short story written by author Gloria Skurzynski. In the book <em>Pathways - Literature for Readers and Writers</em>, the story has 13 pages. It narrates the adventures of a boy, Jeremy, whose life is lonely and friendless. He gets sucked into a game called Nethergrave and needs to choose between staying in the game world forever and returning home, to the real world.
The mood which is established bu the setting, especially in the use of words such as deep, dusk, and black is <em>dark, gloomy, depressing, sad, scary, mysterious, </em>etc.
