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 The Moon of Gomrath is the sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. It was published in 1963. Garner provides an interesting side-light on his authorial approach by including an appendix of books which inspired him, along with a brief... 
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10/31/2001: 318 words, approx. 1 pages Moon, constellation promise spooky sights Associated Press Wednesday, October 31, 2001 For the first time in 46 years, this year's Halloween ghosts and goblins can trick or treat by the light of a full moon. They won't get another chance until...
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 Critical Essay by Eleanor Cameron
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Alan Garner's The Owl Service … reveals that he is not a man to rest on the laurels awarded him by those enthusiastic children who read with pleasure The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, and Elidor. For The Owl Service … is entirely different from his other three, having in common with them only that it is fantasy and takes off from legend. But because certain of Garner's tendencies as a writer are noticeable in all of his books and because these tendencies play an... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Andrew B. Myers
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In Alan Garner's story the moon of Gomrath rises over an unmistakably British countryside and over a hidden, ageless underworld of frighteningly evil powers and almost equally fearsome champions of the good…. ["The Moon of Gomrath"] jumps abruptly from one Tolkienish shiver to another, but there is a gripping power to these episodes of creeping horror, reminiscent of those in Charles Williams' adult novels of the occult. Andrew B. Myers, "New Books for ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Tony Watkins
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Alan Garner's four novels find the source of their inspiration in non-classical mythology and all contain elements of fantasy…. For Alan Garner there are no original stories: 'originality now means the personal colouring of existing themes, and some of the richest ever expressed are in the folklore of Britain.' (Note to The Moon of Gomrath.) For example, Elidor combines the story of Childe Roland with, among other things, the Irish myth of the Tuatha Dé Danaan who came fro...
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