The arrangement with Charles Dodgson brings that horror directly into the human world. Dodgson receives extended life in exchange for sacrifices, with the Liddle family caught in that arrangement.
That matters because these stories contain human responsibility alongside supernatural evil. Someone wants something badly enough to offer other people in exchange. The creature on the other side of the mirror is terrifying, but so is the person prepared to send somebody through it.
Alice’s captivity gives that bargain a face. Once you follow her story, the consequences stop being abstract. You are watching a person live through what somebody else was willing to purchase with her life.
The arrangement with Charles Dodgson brings that horror directly into the human world. Dodgson receives extended life in exchange for sacrifices, with the Liddle family caught i…
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