Elidor - Alan Garner

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This was in a collection of Alan Garner books (one volume called The Garner Omnibus).  Interesting take on the "kids enter a fantasy world" adventure.  If anything, the depiction of post WW2 suburb life outside London is even weirder than the fantasy elements.  And, I think, it offers a reminder of how little we understand of the electric appliances we use, how the power gets to them, or what it does after it arrives.  An updated version of this, with slightly more realistic adults, would be a creepy little story.