Let's make this birthday one to remember.

72 years old (Born on November 30, 1952)

Happy birthday, Henry Selick! May your celebration be as whimsical and delightfully eerie as the charming worlds you've created in *Coraline*—though certainly less button-eyed creepers knocking at your door. From steering a giant peach across oceans to bringing ghostly otherworlds vividly alive, you’ve always pushed our imagination frame-by-frame into wonderfully spooky territories.

Here's wishing plenty of cake (without mysterious alternate realities baked inside) on this special day. Your creative genius has stitched together timeless animations that haunt beautifully within our hearts forever, proving it's entirely possible—and even delightful—to both spook and enchant audiences one painstaking stop-motion shot at a time!