Antagonist Title: Lilith murders people important to the protagonist ( his true love, Lona), and the story is called Lilith.Animorphism: The librarian can turn into a raven, and Lilith appears sometimes as a cat and once as a bat-like creature.Alien Sky: The looking-glass land that Vane visits has two moons, neither of which looks or behaves like our own moon.The Ageless: Lilith has been alive for thousands of years, but it is possible for her to die.Lewis' Narnia books and Peter Pan will be obvious to modern readers. The novel is an explication of Macdonald's theology, but also an influential early work of fantasy fiction its resemblance to C. He also finds a city ruled by Lilith, the legendary first wife of Adam who's turned into an immortal child-killing vampire. One day Vane follows the "ghost" to a magic mirror in the house that connects to an alternate world inhabited by spirits of the dead, various monsters, a mysterious tribe of children who grow slowly or not at all, and the biblical Adam and Eve. Vane, a young man who inherits an old country mansion from his deceased parents which seems to be haunted by the ghost of its former librarian. Lilith is a Romance by George Macdonald that was first published in 1895.
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